Gédéon programmes

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Stéphane Millière

Président-Directeur Général

Thibaut Martin

Directeur général de Docland Yard

Created in 1995 at the initiative of its president Stéphane Millière, GEDEON Programmes is a key figure in international audiovisual production. Feature films, documentaries, magazines, short programmes, institutional films and spin-offs, GEDEON produces an average of 70 to 90 hours of programmes each year. With a mind for our future generations confronted with a world that is increasingly fragile and endangered, GEDEON is committed to producing quality programmes for a wide audience in its field of choice: exploration, discovery and preservation of our scientific, environmental and cultural world heritage. Always abreast of new technologies, GEDEON produces a third of its films in high definition for maximum quality, and uses the latest cutting edge special effects and CGI as well as historical reconstitutions and fiction within its programmes. Today, Gedeon's catalogue contains 800 hours of programmes and 20,000 hours of rushes - an incredible wealth of images shot in the four corners of the earth, a treasure trove for the media and companies. Since its inception, numerous key figures from the scientific and cultural communities, scientific and governmental institutions, and French and international broadcasters have put their trust in GEDEON. GEDEON's commitment to quality has garnered more than 350 prizes and awards in international festivals since its creation as well as the Producer's Award by the PROCIREP, UNESCO's Science and Television Award and the Patronage Oscar Award.

produced films

Solar Impulse across America

Solar Impulse is the only airplane of perpetual endurance, able to fly day and night on solar power, without a drop of fuel. After completing several missions in Europe and Morocco, and before its...

Angkor, the new megalopolis

Angkor, Cambodia. An aerial laser technology which was used for the first time in archaeology allowed to reveal a medieval city on the hills of Phnom Kulen, a forested plateau overlooking the...

Heart of Paris Zoo (in the)

Some 1000 animals live together at the Zoological Park of Paris. Behind the scenes, as vets and keepers, we’re mobilized 24 hours a day to look after our precious tenants. Through our eyes,...

Abyss, journey into an unknown sea

There is a place on the earth which has not been totally explored by explorers yet: the abyss of the oceans. Is there life thousands of meters beneath the surface, where there is no more light? Which...

Tracking the blue diamond

This is the great story of a scientific research as well as an incredible story of robbery, jewel recovery and ancient curse. It is the return of the most mythical blue diamond in the world: the...

Fred and Jamy, let's go to the jungle!

Fred and Jamy go to explore the Congo Basin forest. They make us discover its extraordinary biodiversity and its emblematic animals, elephants and gorillas.

Wings of the sun (The)

On July 7, 2010, the solar airplane leaves the ground like a dancer in a deafening silence... A wild dream come true. If our world has become dependent on fossil fuels, man also has the ability to...

The Whale Mystery

The island of Madre de Dios is one of the largest of the 5,000 islands in Chilean Patagonia. Lashed by Pacific storms in the howling fifties, the island is uninhabited, uninhabitable and almost...

Shaman, his nephew... and the captain (The)

Palawan Island in the Philippines: Medsinu succeeds his father as shaman, in a community living in the forest and pressured by the modern world. His nephew Issad falls ill and can no longer work the...

Khufu's Horizon:The secrets Of The Great Pyramid Reveald

It’s the only one of the seven Wonders of the World that’s still standing today. 5 million tons of stone stacked, 146 metres high, 4,500 years ago! The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the...

In the mind of plants

Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology...

Enchanted Forest (The)

In Auvergne in the heart of France lies a long forgotten forest, la forêt de la Comté, legacy of Reine Margot who dedicated the nearby castle to one of her lovers. This forest is one of the first...

Toumaï, enquiry on our origins

July 2002, in the Djourab desert of North Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery...

The world of colours

From the iridescence of a butterfly's wing to the coating of a new car, from cave paintings to a Christian Lacroix show, from Masai rituals to the colour of traffic signs, The World of Colours takes...

Mysteries of Kyys, the chamane (The)

In 2006, Eric Crubezy, anthropologist and forensic scientific discovered an ancient tomb with exceptional remains: one of the most well-preserved tomb ever discovered in Siberia. A woman was lying in...

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...

Super Jellyfish

Jellyfish are incredible animals. Deprived of a head, heart and brain, and composed of 95% of water, they are able to change their identity, regenerate their body or produce some light. Some of them...

Super Worm

Worms are everywhere: in the ground, in the oceans, in the ice of Alaska and even within us ! Thanks to worms, genetics could decipher our genome...

The polar minute

Series of short programs about the problem of the poles and the global warming with the complicity of Jean-Louis Etienne. The objective of this series: better understand the North Pole and the South...

Maud Fontenoy, Against the Current

29-year-old Maud Fontenoy is not an usual adventurer. She's the first woman to have rowed her way entirely across the Atlantic from America to Europe. This accomplished sportswoman has been sailing...

Destination Wilderness

Africa, blue gold beneath the sands, directed by Pierre Stine Destination Malawi, Botswana and Namibia along the gread Rift fracture. Septentrion, directed by Patrick Luzeux The Vikings who...

Buffon, Nature's Thinker

Mathematician, botanist, naturalist, geologist, encyclopedist, industrialist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was all this and much more. He left us a considerable heritage in every domain he...

The Wings of the Condor

Angelo d'Arrigo, French-Italian champion of hang-gliding and used to extreme challenges, dedicated several years of his life to a dream: fly with birds, be inspired of their technique of flight and...

Dreamlife of rats (The)

This film shows the experiments made on rats in the States before exploring the human brain...

Mysteries of the Canopy (The)

The treetop raft, a huge inflatable device for exploring and studying the canopy, heads to the island of Madagascar for an exciting expedition. Fiftysome researchers gather together to carry out an...

ARTE Expeditions

This serie is about the adventures of 15 lucky tv viewers who took part in 15 great French, German and Swiss scientific expeditions. The ARTE Expeditions deals with great scientific problems with the...

Tomorrow, a world without ice? Life in suspension

Since the end of the last glaciation 20,000 years ago, a unique wildlife has adapted, and with what ingenuity, the polar regions. This adaptation is so complete that global warming threatens all...

Toumaï, the New Ancestor

July 2001, in the Djourab desert of north Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery...

The Wild West Uncovered

The American Wild West of legend is a sprawling desert fraught with promise and danger… A land of characters larger than life, whose exploits were celebrated - and undoubtedly embroidered - by the...

Mysteries of Clipperton (The)

A ring of coral lost in the Pacific. The most isolated atoll on earth. Clipperton, tiny French territory off the coast of Mexico, remains a scientific mystery. How did life manage to take root here?...

Tracking the Giant Squid

September 28, 2005, a world premiere: a team of Japanese scientists led by Dr Tsunemi Kobodera has successfully photographed the most mysterious of all marine animals, the Architeutix Dux, in...

White planet

The Arctic is a unique world, shaped by ice and wind. A vast frozen ocean lying on top of the world, surrounded by dry land... A world itself, inhabited by unique fauna that has adapted to extreme...

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta

In 2001, south-eastern Iran, the change of course Halil Rud River has revealed the presence of thousands of artifacts dating back over five thousand years, traces of a civilization unknown to date....

High Adventure

Serie of 4 episodes Surviving Denali (1/4) The high one, Mount Mac Kinley in North America has the highest base-to-summit elevation of any mound on Earth, rising 18,000 feet from its...

The Murderous Heatwave

August 2003: 14.802 people die from the un-precedent heat wave which strikes France. An unexpected medical catastrophe in a developed country which today questions its inability to face such a...

Winning For Zeus

Who will win the laurel crown? You will find out watching the games taking place in the Olympia's sacred stadium under the hue and cry of 2.000 spectators all dressed up in period costume roars. Take...

Superbat

Thanks to their ability to emit and analyze ultrasound, bats can detect objects as thin as a human hair. How they are able to fly and hunt the tiniest prey in total darkness using "echo-location"...

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....

The secrets of Karakoum

For the past four years, in the back sand desert of Karakoum, close to Merv in Turkmenistan, a team of Italian and Turkmen archaeologists has been excavating and exploring the largest necropolis of...

Hurricane of the Century

In December 1999, France was struck by an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon. This 90-minute documentary relates the hour-by-hour progression of the 'monster.' Archival footage, eye-witness...

The Kingdom of the Nabateans, from Hegra to Medain Saleh

The Nabatean civilization is largely associated with the famous city of Petra in Jordan. But their culture extended way beyond these borders into Syria and Saudi Arabia. Now, for the first time ever,...

Mont Blanc, Europe

In 1892, a water pocket, hidden in the center of the Tête Rousse glacier in the Alps, burst open, sweeping several villages away and causing 175 deaths. Scientists are still unable to detect these...

A Very Special Zoo

Settled in the heart of a former troglodyte quarry, this huge zoo, located in the west of France, is a unique place: 70 animal species live there, 40 among them are endangered species. Thierry...

Libya, the Last Frontier

The most important archaeological site ever found in the Sahara, dating back 6000 years, was found in the Desert of Messak, south-west Libya. French archaeologist Jean-Louis Le Quellec made this...

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...

Arctic Mission, Climate on the Edge

Describing the climatic changes and their impact on the living world. The Earth has always known climatic variations during its evolution but human activities have triggered a global warming as...

Quest for the Lost Pharaoh

The captivating story of one’s man pursuit and discovery of a new necropolis in Egypt’s South Saqqara, which will reveal the mysterious history of four pharaohs from the Old Kingdom, lost to...

Madagascar, a Tree Top Odyssey

The gigantic inflatable research station for studying the canopy is off again on an expedition on the island of Madagascar. About fifty scientists from around the world meet at the top of the trees...