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- 2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress7.72019HD
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the wel...
- 2012
The Mystery of Dark Matter (2012)
The Mystery of Dark Matter6.52012HD
Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it is. This breath-taking thriller leads us to the dawn of a scientific and metaphysical revolution, akin...
- 2019
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace6.22019HD
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be t...
- 2019
The Blob: A Genius without a Brain (2019)
The Blob: A Genius without a Brain8.72019HD
This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob....
- 2014
Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ? (2014)
Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ?6.52014HD
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- 2013
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins8.42013HD
Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in South Africa in a fisherman's net. This species bears witness to an evolutionary bifurcation 380 mill...
- 2008
Les inséparables (2008)
Les inséparables4.52008HD
Boris and Sandra meet and immediately love each other with a lively passion. Enough to help them fight the best enemy of their love: addiction. That of Boris on drugs, that of Sandra in Boris. Linked, attached to each other, reclusive but alive, they...
- 2018
700 Sharks (2018)
700 Sharks6.72018HD
Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during the full moon of June 2014 (Le mystère mérou) in the southern pass of the Polynesian atoll of Fakarava, where he discovered a pack of over seven hundr...
- 1971
Drums from the Past (1971)
Drums from the Past5.81971HD
"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries which surpass the conventional documentary format. Just as frightening and fascinating as "Les maîtres...
- 2017
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth (2017)
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth7.22017HD
Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this ar...
- 1979
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai (1979)
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai01979HD
In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of 122. On this occasion, the large Bongo mask, is erected and for twenty days, family members, elders, men f...
- 2017
Brains in Danger (2017)
Brains in Danger7.22017HD
For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders. This international scientific investigation reveals how chemicals in objects surrounding us affect our brain, and especially those of ...
- 2015
Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect (2015)
Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect82015HD
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of historians. Why did King Francis I (1494-1547), who commissioned it, embark on this epic project in the hea...
- 2016
Oceans The Mystery of the Missing Plastic (2016)
Oceans The Mystery of the Missing Plastic7.52016HD
As most plastic never deteriorates, it simply breaks down into smaller and smaller particles that are invisible to the human eye, what happens to this missing ocean plastic is a mystery. In this investigation, scientists embark in search of the micro...
- 2018
Kurdistan: The Untold Story of Mesopotamia (2018)
Kurdistan: The Untold Story of Mesopotamia82018HD
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a region that has not yet been explored, a formidable archaeological adventure is taking place where scientific knowledge is the answer to oblivion....
- 1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) (1974)
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)01974HD
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for t...
- 2014
Petra, the Capital of the Desert (2014)
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At the dawn of the Christian era, Petra, capital of the rich kingdom of the Nabataeans, bordering the deserts of Arabia, Syria and the Negev, was absorbed by the Roman Empire and, after being sacked by the Bedouins, disappeared from the memory of man...
- 1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel) (1968)
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)01968HD
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain "water from the sky but not fire from the sky", is organized, with Sorko priests, ritual musicians and ...
- 1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham (1986)
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham01986HD
In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic world of a psychiatric ward. Tasked with nurturing the minds within, she forms a profound connection with a patient f...
- 2020
Et si la Terre était unique ? (2020)
Et si la Terre était unique ?8.82020HD
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