catalogue
Nile Crocodile after Eden (The)
In a pool of the Crocodile Farm of Pierrelatte, a crocodile stares with nostalgy at its ancestors’ plastic reproduction : the Sarcosuchus imperator. Its journey through Time and its species’ memory takes it to the edge of the river that gaves it its name : the Nile. It remembers the glory...
Nile Delta, the end of the miracle (The)
A serious threat hangs over the Egyptians, they will be among the first to suffer the consequences of global warming: much of the overpopulated delta will be submerged by 2100 with a Mediterranean sea increasingly aggressive. Nearly 40 million people live less than two meters above sea...
No Gravity
"I have always wanted to explore inaccessible and dangerous places. As a child, I dreamed about flying to space. I had often heard that it was a man’s trade, that one shouldn’t have daydreamed. I refused those rules, I had to become a space engineer, I built rockets, I applied to be an...
No Problem! Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas
No Problem! - Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas follows the story of the 2011 batch of African women attending the rural solar electrification project at the Barefoot College in Rajasthan, India, where numerous illiterate rural women from all over the world, particularly Africa, are being...
Nostalgia for the light
In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the Universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human...
Not another middle school
The Saint-Louis-Guillotière middle school of Lyon is singular. Created by the Jesuits at the beginning of the 70s, It is curiously confided to a lively teaching staff very influenced by the sphere of influence of May, 68. Director of the institution during almost ten years, Philippe Meirieu,...
Nothing
Nothing explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? For over a century, top scientists have grappled with this question: from...
Novgorod, Letters from the Middle Ages
Novgorod in Northwest Russia is one of the few cities that escaped destruction by Mongol invaders. Cathedrals and icons from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries bear witness to its illustrious past. But even more astonishing are the numerous letters written on birch bark that have survived beneath...
Nuclear Lands
The film begins with the story of the birth of plutonium production in the 40s in Hanford USA, then recounts the history of the nuclear reprocessing plant in La Hague, France, then tells of the Rokkasho nuclear site in Japan which is actually built on a seismic fault line.Citizens and local...
Nuclear Power, Nothing to Report
For or against the nuclear power? And if the question was somewhere else? An essential testimony misses in the debate, that of the workers of the nuclear power. Our safety is between their hands. This movie gives the words to them.
Nuclear... Nor so clear!
What would happen if tomorrow another Chernobyl occurred? What information would be available if a cloud of radioactive particles passed overhead? To answer this type of question an accident simulation was organized by twenty-seven European countries. The film follows the crisis unit teams of...
Nurses (The)
Toulouse, Rangueil Hospital, ICU Neurosurgery... Fifty nurses and nursing assistants are in charge of twelve patients, all in boxes of bedridden ICU. 10 x 26 min
Nyiragongo: a volcano in the city
At 15 km from Goma in Congo, stands, at 3500 meters, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, the Nyiragongo. In 2002, a catastrophic eruption caused lava flows into the city of Goma. The plume has persisted over the volcano, volcanologist Jacques Durieux worries: the volcano threat...
O for origin
4 billion years ago, asteroids, large blocks of ice and rocks racing through the solar system combined into planets. Our heroine Piccolina, a water molecule inside a frozen meteorite, lands on our planet. As ice melts, H2O molecules like Piccolina become liquid water, the elixir of life. In...
O2 - The Molecule That Made Our World
Oxygen – we all need it, we can’t live without it. It’s integral to life on this planet. And it’s probable that, as you watch this film, you will be breathing in an oxygen atom that was also breathed by Genghis Khan – or by the first ever apes to stand upright on the plains of Africa. ...
Odyssey of the Continents - Europe : The Modern Era
“Europe : The Modern Era” will take the audience back to the birth of the Alps. The traditional “Cristalier” clans who have been unearthing crystal for centuries explain to us how these huge summits evolved over a period of millions of years. Retrieving these gems requires huge risks and...
Of Stars and Men
Inspired by the book of the astronomer Harlox Shapley, Of stars and men follows the quest of a child (representing mankind) to find its place in the universe, through themes such as space, matter, meaning of life ... the bias graph, inspired by the cartoon, the colors and the playful and poetic...
On the tracks of the giants sloths
This movie tells the discovery, in the heart of Brazil, of an exceptional paleontological site which is going to revolutionize the knowledge of the giants sloths. During an international expedition started in extreme conditions, the successive discoveries allow to reconstitute, in computer...
On the trail of art
This exclusive-access documentary will bring truth and understanding to an art world filled with secrets and riddles. From the basement of the Louvre in Paris to the Opificio delle pietre dure in Florence, discover how science can restore original beauty and confound counterfeits. Thanks to...
On the Trail of the Celts
The construction of a new high-speed train line in the East of France gave birth to the biggest archaeological dig ever undertaken in France following the same route by which the Celts migrated. Who were the Celts, who dominated vast stretches of Europe for over five hundred years? In Hungary,...
On the volcanoes of the world
It would appear that the earth breathes. That the earth breathes is confirmed each time a volcano becomes active somewhere in the world. And it is at this precise moment when Guy de Saint Cyr, an amazing geologist and inveterate volcano hugger for the past 40 years, decides to organise an...
On the yeti trail
For the first time in more than a century, legends and sometimes crazy testimonies are the subject of real scientific studies. Several teams around the world, in Denmark, in England, in the United-states and in Russia, are engaged in a fierce competition to be the first to publish revolutionary...
Once Upon a Time in the Zoo
Immersion in Beauval Zoo in Loir et Cher backstage to live closer to the animals.
Once Upon a Time on Florès Island
March 2008, the famous journal Science publishes an article confirming that human bones found in 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia are indeed those of a new species of human being. These tiny people lived there just a few thousand years ago. The scientists have baptized this new cousin...
Opération Lune – L'épave cachée du Roi Soleil
The boat of Louis the XIV, La Lune, wrecked off Toulon in November 1664. The ship was coming back from an expedition on the Barbary Coast with more than a thousand men onboard. Wonderfully conserved, such as an underwater Pompeii, it has been an extraordinary architectural search.
Operation Iceberg - Ep 1: Birth of a 'berg
The team uncover the hidden forces that explain why the Store Glacier of Greenland produces so many icebergs. Naturalist Chris Packham works with scientists on a research yacht in the danger zone at the front of the glacier, whilst ocean specialist Helen Czerski explores the inside of the glacier...
Origins of Language (The)
Where does this strange faculty of ours come from? Along with the ability to walk on two feet, the invention of language is regarded as one of the most important stages in the adventure of human development. Until the 1980s, speech and language, the brain and the larynx were inextricably linked,...
Origins of the Apple (The)
The film takes us into the mountains of Tian Shan in Kazakhstan where the first apple trees were born, 165 million years ago. Called Malus sieversii, they grow in thick forests of trees, all different from each other, some of them being three hundred years old and sometimes more than thirty meters...
Other men (The)
Contact with the West precipitated the demise of most indigenous societies. Through their art, their imagination has survived and is now exposed in the major museums. In this complex legacy, we feel that is played today something essential: a connection to the world different from our.
Our Secret Memories
The psycho-genealogy invites us to work on the transmission of traumatism, from generation to another generation, exploring each branch of his family tree. Many people can find in it answers to recurrent sufferings, appeasement, and a new sense to their life. Creator of this discipline, the...
Out from the shadows: the story of Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie
This fascinating biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie, the eldest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Although less well known than her parents, Irene and her husband, Frédéric, made a contribution to nuclear physics that was of equally ground-breaking significance. And...
Ovocytes business
Welcome to Los Angeles, the capital of baby business. There, no need to make love to have a baby, you just need a test tube and a big check... At the core of this industry: the sale and the purchase of ovules. Agencies propose to choose the biological mother of one's child in a catalogue. Dc...
Pandora's Promise
Also in Student Competition This film will be screened with French subtitles.All environmentalists and left-leaning political activists oppose nuclear energy, right ? Wrong. What if everything we knew about nuclear energy was wrong ? What is nuclear power is the only energy source that has the...
Paris 2011, the big flooding
Winter, 1910. Paris is flooded. 200 000 victims. Cost: 1 billion euro. These floods are centennial. This flood is going to reproduce. Experts are Formal. "The big flood" describes the events Which are going to take place in Paris during the next floods Centennial. It is inspired of the " plan...
Particle Fever
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. Particle Fever gives audiences a front row seat to scientific discovery as it happens. The film follows six brilliant...
Pasteur
This film follows the life and discoveries of the great scientist, as he works alongside his wife Marie and other close collaborators. We relive the adventure-packed life of a man who was raised in the Napoleonic spirit, by an old-guard soldier father who taught him to never surrender. Pasteur...
Path of depth (The)
Loïc Leferme, incredible freediving, explores both the limits of great depth and of his conscience... He goes beyond 170 meters under the sea, snorkeling, where lies a realm previously reserved only for creatures of the deep ... While his body is transformed, yard by yard, he sees a few...
Paths of reading (The)
The film structures itself around a central question we ask as an enigma: how to reconcile the cultural singularity that is reading, developed recently by our single species, with the slow pace of genetic evolution, and therefore with the fixity of brain biology? Stanislas Dehaene proposed an...
Patients of hope
Sometimes qualified as "human guinea pigs", the patients of hope allow the medicine to progress by accepting to get involved in experimental protocols. Pioneers in their field, they test a device, a medicine or a medical practice for the first time. In exchange, they might be the first ones to...
Perfect Runner (The)
Explore the miracle of running through the science of human evolution. From the highlands of Ethiopia, to the most remote place in Arctic Siberia, to a grueling ultramarathon in the Canadian Rockies, "The Perfect Runner" weaves cutting-edge science with gripping adventure, and leaves the viewer...
Physics on the go
Filmed in a small village in the Southern Alps where he spends his holidays with his family, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is engaged as a man but also as a researcher through multiple interviews intercut with scenes of everyday life and some simple manipulations that allow him to explain the principles...
Pirates of life
Permission to patenting genetically modified organisms (GMOs), like any industrial product, opened the door to privatization of life, which, under the pressure of a few multinationals and the World Trade Organization (WTO) has spread to all the living resources of the planet. The North patent on...
Plankton Planet
This mini-serie offers an elegant dive in a parallel world, the universe full of surprises of the plankton. These beings, animals and plants, normally invisible to most, are 99.9% to inhabit our oceans.
Plastic - The real Seamonster
Plastic floats.This is where our story begins.Millions of tons enter the ocean every year, pouring out from rivers and shores,ships and platforms. The world’s scientists have studied the phenomenon and come to alarming results.Plastic contains synthetic hormones that are released when plastic...
Plug & Pray
Since antiquity, humankind has dreamed of creating intelligent machines. The invention of the computer and the breathtaking pace of technological progress appear to be bringing the realisation of this dream within our grasp. Scientists and engineers across the world are working on the...
Pobalski Mammoth
Victor Pierre Bouvier, explorer, arrives in Oubalski, in Eastern Siberia, searching for a frozen mammoth.
Pollution
In 1952, London was covered in a thick blanket of sulfur oxides for two weeks. Ever since this "smog" incident that caused 4,500 deaths, any mention of "air pollution" causes politicians and media to focus on pollution peaks. However, these are not the most deadly. A recent study carried out in...
Port-Cros, a shrine open to the public
The National Park of the Port-Cros Island (Var) has set itself two missions that may seem paradoxical: to protect earth's and submarine's wealth of a single site in the Mediterranean, while leaving the park open to the public. Completing these missions requires the development of a number of rules...
Portrait of Claire Waelbroeck, paleoclimatologist
Claire Waelbroeck (CNRS) studies marine sediments collected on an oceanographic vessel, which enable to know the natural variations in climate over hundreds of thousands of years. For her, science is not an ivory tower. It is, instead, a better way to understand the world.
Portrait of Daniel Bonn, physicist
Daniel Bonn (CNRS) is pleased to have preserved the power of curiosity and wonder of his early years. Enthusiastic, he does not lose sight of the value, direct or indirect, in the near future or longer term, could have all of his research.