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(The) dunnos adventure
With Sum, an alien scientist and Hawk, an interstellar pilot, discover the history of science! With them, Understand how dinosaurs were discovered, which error led to the invention of penicillin, which scientist and adventurer highlighted the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars, how...
10 BILLION
This film will be screened in subtitled original version Ten Billion is a film about us. It's a film about you, your children, your parents, your friends. It's about every one of us. It's about our failure: failure as individuals, the failure of business, and the failure of our politicians. It is...
400 years of the telescope
A visually stunning chronicle of the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo, its profound impact upon the science of astronomy, and how both have shaped the way we view ourselves in the midst of an infinite universe. The film features interviews with leading astrophysicists and...
A cockroach in my cupboard
Get ready to get acquainted with amazing fellows... Most often, they pass unnoticed. These aliens inhabit our lives and inhabit our beds, our closets... They are amazing creatures and look like aliens. Imagine a nightmare scenario where all these invaders would be given appointment in a house that...
A dark cloud on top of the world
“The air of the Himalayas is just as polluted as that of European cities” This was the shocking headline in October 2008 which first informed the public of the scientific findings of atmospheric measurements taken at over 5,000m altitude, at the foot of the Everest. The roof of the world was...
A for Arithmetic
Raymond Queneau uses absurd reasoning to explain the rules of arithmetic.
A good laugh
Laugh! Laughinf out loud ! Crying with laughter! Our body reacts to the extreme to trigger the phenomenon of laughter. But what happens exactly physically, chemically when we laugh? And is it really, as we believe, good for the health? With many hilarious experiences, Matière Gris (Grey Matter)...
A l'école du Bush
An ethno-biologist and a wild-life film-maker decide to let their kids skip school for a few months taking them on a unique voyage across Australia and Indonesia. They take distance-learning books with them and enjoy sharing a whole range of experiences and meetings with people on the other side of...
A Natural History of Laughter
For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only one to laugh? We know that bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans also enjoy having a good laugh, especially when tickled. There is even a “tickling machine” at the Institute of Neurology in London. What are the latest discoveries about...
A praga
This film will be screened with French subtitles. In the city of Porto, rumors spread about the increasingly threatening presence of seagulls. The narrator takes us on a journey which often touches horror, grotesque and surreal atmospheres. Scientific experts mix advice with radically...
A precious envelope for budding scientists
Could nanotechnology be the future science? Today, scientist fabricate and investigate tiny objects as small as molecules through Nanotechnologies. How do they proceed? What are the applications? In this video, a boy and a girl discover this surprising universe together with a passion for...
A Summer in Antarctica
During the austral summer, based on scientific Dumont d'Urville and Concordia, geologists, glaciologists, biologists, climatologists, astrophysicists and other scientists study and attempt to understand phenomena that concern our planet today: the hole in the ozone, reduction of sea ice, changes in...
A summer without sun
Analysis of the consequences of the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora (Indonesia) which shook the world's climate balance in 1815.
A Volcano Odyssey
Volcanoes give and take. Through the story of 65 millions of years of evolution around a volcanic hotspot in the Indian Ocean, discover how a lava gush flooded an area as large as France, partially caused the demise of dinosaurs but also helped the emergence of mammals and new life forms.
A Wild Roomer
Fiction in black and white. The robot of a great inventor gives life to a small cloth doll. Masterpiece of poetry and humor of silent film.
A World without Madmen?
Today, madness overflows into the street and in prison. Mental hospitals, facing a crisis of resources and values, are struggling to care for patients throughout the course. Meanwhile, a new mental health policy in Europe is prepared and concerns us all. Tomorrow, we will no longer speak of...
Abyss, Alliances Depths
Also in Student Competition In the summer of 2013, the biggest French oceanographic ship, the ‘Pourquoi pas’ [‘Why not’] undertook an extremely important mission, which allowed the international team of 30 scientists on board to test their latest hypotheses: that bacteria play a vital...
Achieving the unachievable
When art meets mathematics: emotion or theory? On how the fusion of the formidable intuitive talents of an artist and a mathematician finally broke the infinity barrier… Achieving The Unachievable explores one of the most fascinating enigmas of modern art – the empty circle at the centre of...
After death life of Henrietta Lacks (The)
Humorous life of a young researcher in everyday life, his passion and his personal research.
Aids, the Bloody Truth
French version of the film When did HIV originate and where? How did it become the worst pandemic of our times? Scientists search for answers during an epic journey through Africa where they trace the virus very early beginnings. Their discovery raises urgent questions on how to prepare for...
Alice cares
This film will be screened in original version with french subtitles. In order to meet future care demands for elderly who are lonely and suffering from dementia, carebot Alice has been developed. Can a robot build a human relationship with someone and thus replace a person of flesh and blood? The...
Alice in cockroachland
Belgian Swiss and French researchers are studying the possibility of creating a joint environment with cockroaches and small autonomous robots. The program Leurre comes to an end today and the results are truly amazing: they show that a group of robots can influence the behavior of an animal...
Aliens of the Amazon - Treehoppers
Man has explored all the continents, but life remains full of mysteries... In the very heart of the rainforest, some creatures seem coming straight out of a science fiction movie. They are nicknamed the Mini-monsters. Most of these strange animals live in the forests of tropical America,...
Alive Inside
This film will be screened in original version with french subtitles. As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside : A story of music and memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives. Through revealing covnersations with...
All the things that are not there
This film will be screened in subtitled original version A young woman travels through the USA chasing the images of Harold Edgerton, the inventor of the modern flash. The idea of wonder, discovery and conquest of a world revealed thanks to his inventions triggers a road trip through the USA,...
All Tracked
Today more than ever, technology allows anyone to track us everywhere. Cameras, smart cards mobile, social network, it has become almost impossible to go unnoticed! But this is just the beginning….Scientists, engineers and industrials are developing new tools to look at us more closely, and even...
Always faster
Science and technology are now part of the equation of making a champion. Swimming, skiing, cycling or sprint, athletes have only one goal: going faster. In sports where speed is the critical factor, sport researchers, doctors and engineers continually search out ways to shave precious hundredths...
Amazing Plants
Amazing Plants gives an insight into the fascinating world of plants. The plants which we have taken for granted are beginning to make themselves noticed. By feeling, hearing, smelling and tasting, these plants continue on their journey through the undergrowth, in a bid for...
American Experience: The Poisoner's Handbook
French version of the film In the early 20th century, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner’s treasure chest. There was radioactive radium in health tonics, thallium in depilatory creams, and morphine in teething medicine and potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies....
Animal solidarity
Some species have learned to help each other without agression. The aim? Exchange goods and services in a true mutual symbiosis. The search for protection against predators, to find food, to cleen is what is exchanged in these mutual aid. Existing since the beginning of life, trade has no borders,...
Antibiotics Adventure: Birth of an Empire
Does antibiotics overconsumption endanger us? Antibiotics are undoubtedly the greatest discovery of all time in the field of health. With it, man has managed to neutralize microbes for the first time in history. This fundamental victory has led society to an unprecedented revolution. Life...
Ape Genius
The great apes which include chimps, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos, seem to have rich emotional lives similar to our own. But just how smart are these animals? A new generation of investigators is revealing the secret mental lives of great apes that are turning out to be far smarter than most...
Ape Man - Experiment Kinship
Where do we come from? What do apes and humans have in common, where are the differences? The chimpanzee Sina and the paleontologist Oliver are trying to answer these questions in an extraordinary experiment. By comparing Oliver’s and Sina’s anatomy and behaviour in the TV-studio, we see how...
Aquanauts
The seas make up three quarters of the globe and 80% of these surfaces are submerged at great depths. What happens there, there, below, in the darkness? Daring few have tried to answer these questions, without ever renouncing the face of danger: for those rare "Aquanauts" is a powerful magnet on...
Around the world in 90 minutes
We leave for a trip around the world in real time. Of the seven billion human beings who inhabit our land, only six were lucky enough to see the world from space. It is the team of astronauts on the International Space Station. In precisely 90 minutes, they have the privilege to make a full...
Around the world, Around the sky
Taking up the title of a ten film series on the history of astronomical observatories from antiquity until today broadcasted by Arte in 1990 (Tours du monde, tours du ciel- Around the world, around the sky), this project deals with astronomy and observatories, but today, with a new story and a new...
Artificial Uterus. Birth without bodies (the)
An artificial placenta, a synthetic amniotic fluid… These medical advancements designed to help premature babies could soon allow the creation of an "artificial uterus”, and with it the possibility of fabricating human babies outside a woman’s body. The film is a scientific investigation...
Atom Smashers (the)
Did the american government slow down scientific research in the USA? A group of American physicists lead the international search for the Higgs boson - the "god particle" - while struggling with a government and culture perhaps at odds with scientific progress, an aging four-mile long machine, as...
Atome Sweet Home
A coffee machine, a platypus, and we humans are all made of the same raw material: atoms. Our Universe and everything it contains is an assemblage of atoms that are billions of years old, continuously recycled since the Big Bang. If everything is made of the same matter, what is the difference...
Attacks of Sharks in La Reunion: the investigation
Images CHARC program in coproduction with audiovisual service IRD Institute of Research for Development and with the support of the Region, Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France Ten attacks and five deaths. For three years, the Meeting Island in Indian Ocean is in forehead (front) of has...
Autism Enigma (The)
Autism is the fastest rising developmental disorder in the industrialized world. With an astounding 600% Autism increase in the last 20 years, scientists are still grappling with it’s cause. Research is inconclusive, but the emerging theme is that autism is triggered by environment, not genetics,...
Automatic Brain - The magic of the unconscious
Automatic Brain will feature top international scientists, such as John Bargh of Yale University. He says, that our everyday life is automated to an incredible extent. The German neurologist Gerhard Roth even claims, that "the human's free will is probably just a myth". Sydney's neurologist Allan...
Awake in a bad dream
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Up close and without comment this film shows how breast cancer throws the lives of three women into turmoil. Sabrina, Vicky and Ingrid fight to uphold their dignity and womanhood despite the pain and sorrow they have to go through. How do they...
Baby Boomers take on Mount Mera
Nepal. The Himalayas. The highest mountains on the planet. Peaks, including Mount Everest’s, that tower over the Earth at 8,000+ metres high. In November 2008, Découverte proudly whisked its viewers away to this spectacular place. Baby Boomers take on Mount Mera portrays a bold scientific...
Basking Sharks, the gentle giants
Their appearance is so horrific that they were still considered in the last century as sea monster. However the up to twelve-metre-long basking sharks are peaceful plankton eaters and near to extinction. Only 8000 –so estimated- swim as restless vagabonds through the oceans. Nobody knows where...
Battle of Chernoby (The)
On April 26, 1986, a flame rises 1,000 meters high in the sky of Ukraine. The most serious nuclear accident in history just happened. The Battle of Chernobyl is an incredible race against the clock where 500,000 miners and soldiers but also civilians, were sent from all republics of the Soviet...
Beast of Natal
Each year in June, five billion sardines come together to form the largest living organism on the planet. The beast of Natal, forming a column of twenty miles by two, began the most incomprehensible of animal migration: three months and five thousand miles, explain neither by reproduction nor the...
Beating heart (A)
The heart transplant was the greatest medical adventure of the 20th century. Who would have imagined that the heart, the essential organ of life, could be replaced like a humble motor? Who would have predicted that a person who had just died could give their heart to someone else, thus saving their...
Benjamin Franklin and the first balloons
On November 21st 1783 in Paris, a balloon rises over a crowd of spectators spellbound with on board Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes. One of humanity’s oldest dreams was finally coming true. For the first time ever, Man had taken off from the Earth, and was able to fly! On January...
Beyond the blue of the sky
Following the spirit of Magellan's voyage, five astronauts: a Russian, an American, a Canadian and two Europeans, share with us their experience, their emotions and their questionings on the future of space exploration towards the planet Mars and beyond.