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Metropolis: The Splendor of Cities Throughout the Ages

The series Metropolis takes us to the very heart of urban life in antiquity and in the 15th century. It examines a crucial step in the history of civilization and culture: Mankind has advanced to a settled lifestyle, allowing him to organize large social alliances which extend far beyond family and clan. The consequences are critical changes in all facets of life.

Once upon a time...

French TV documentary series, covering the circumstances surrounding notable films.

Mission X

MISSION X tracks down the mysteries that triggered spectacular turning points in our history. Alert minds with the courage to go new and different ways, with ideas and a sense of adventure, created the remarkable turns of events that were responsible for making us what we are today.

Through the Night with...

Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

Pierre or The Ambiguities

This alternate extended TV version of Pola X continues to follow a writer who leaves his upper-class life to journey with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends. New sequences explore the writer's dreams and his relationships with his mother, sister and fiancée.

Europas wilder Osten

mare TV

Cuisines des terroirs

A sensual approach to culinary art "on the ground", meeting farmers, winegrowers, restaurateurs and cooks, where gastronomy and the art of living have their roots.

Chiefs

These films brings to life the power, spirit and mystery of the leaders of First Nations, and separates the myths from the men and battles.

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.

Hitlers Children

This five-part series hears the testimonies of former members of the Hitler Youth and draws on unpublished archive material and chilling propaganda footage for the first comprehensive film portrayal of the young people of the Third Reich.

Minuscule tragedies

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

Les Ailes du Dragon

Pepe Carvalho

Journey to the Far Right

TV documentary filmmaker Nicholas Fraser investigates the threat of race hatred by talking to French fascists, Italian supporters of Mussolini, neo-Nazis in Germany, and those who deny the existence of the Holocaust.

360° - Die GEO Reportage

ARTE Reportage

Documentaries on important issues around the world, from human rights to the outcomes of elections.

Der letzte Zeuge

Dead Pool

Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.