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OPERATION PLANET 9 52’ At the edge of our solar system scientists believe lies a huge planet, ten times bigger than ours, that remains to be discovered. Several teams of international experts have engaged in a frantic race to detect it, and they are this close. Such a discovery is rare and truly groundbreaking! It would be, now that Pluto has been stripped of its status as a “true” planet, the 9th planet revolving around the sun. The little we know about it now already questions our knowledge of how the solar system works. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020 SCIENCE THE DEEP MED 52’ & 90’ After “700 Sharks”, “Diving with the Coelacanth” and “Expedition Antarc- tica”, Laurent Ballesta has yet again challenged himself to a new world record: spend 28 days at a depth of 100 meters, pushing the limits of his body to reveal the luxuriant and unknown depths of the Mediterranean. The team of diver-photographer Laurent Ballesta is undertaking a new world- record setting mission in complete freedom and without time limit. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: APRIL 2020 1 Contact: Isabelle Monteil [email protected] THE BLOB: A GENIUS WITHOUT A BRAIN 52’ Here comes the Blob! More commonly known as slime-mold, this extraordinary one-billion- year-old organism challenges our worldview on living matter and is about to revolutionize the concept of brainless intelligence LOSING SLEEP 52’ Insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy are massively increasing in the world. In a scientific investigation, we will discover the new methods developed to find sleep: fractional sleep, light therapy, helmets that stimulate the brain. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020 SCREEN GENERATION: A SICK GENERATION? 52’ Smartphone, television, computer, gaming console or digital tablet are now unavoidable in our day to day lives. This everyday intrusion has sparked numerous controversies – hysteria becomes collective. Are we damaging our brain with these damned screens? This scientific mo- vie will distinguish between verified truths and falsehoods as well as the merely possible side -effects of screen exposure. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020 Asia TV Forum 2019

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Page 1: Asia TV Forum 2019€¦ · ANIMAL ODYSSEY 5x52’ 65 million years ago, dinosaurs perished, allowing the advent of mammals on every continent. Over that time, climates have changed,

OPERATION PLANET 9 52’At the edge of our solar system scientists believe lies a huge planet, ten times bigger than ours, that remains to be discovered. Several teams of international experts have engaged in a frantic race to detect it, and they are this close. Such a discovery is rare and truly groundbreaking! It would be, now that Pluto has been stripped of its status as a “true” planet, the 9th planet revolving around the sun. The little we know about it now already questions our knowledge of how the solar system works.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020

S C I E N C E

THE DEEP MED 52’ & 90’After “700 Sharks”, “Diving with the Coelacanth” and “Expedition Antarc­tica”, Laurent Ballesta has yet again challenged himself to a new world record: spend 28 days at a depth of 100 meters, pushing the limits of his body to reveal the luxuriant and unknown depths of the Mediterranean. The team of diver­photo grapher Laurent Ballesta is under taking a new world­record setting mission in complete freedom and without time limit.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: APRIL 2020

1Contact: Isabelle Monteil [email protected]

THE BLOB: A GENIUS WITHOUT A BRAIN 52’

Here comes the Blob! More commonly known as slime­mold, this extraordinary one­billion­year­old organism challenges our worldview on living matter and is about to revolutionize the concept of brainless intelligence

LOSING SLEEP 52’Insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy are massively increasing in the world. In a scientific investigation, we will discover the new methods developed to find sleep: fractional sleep, light therapy, helmets that stimulate the brain.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

SCREEN GENERATION: A SICK GENERATION? 52’Smartphone, television, computer, gaming console or digital tablet are now unavoidable in our day to day lives. This everyday intrusion has sparked numerous controversies – hysteria becomes collective. Are we damaging our brain with these damned screens? This scientific mo­vie will distinguish between verified truths and falsehoods as well as the merely possible side -effects of screen exposure.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

Asia TV Forum 2019

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BACTERIA KILLERS 52’One hundred years ago, the scientist Félix d’Herelle discovered the existence of the bacte­riophage, a mysterious «bacteria killing» virus. As antibiotics are becoming less efficient in fighting increasingly strong bacteria, will phage therapy become the science of tomorrow?

MICROBIOTA: THE AMAZING POWERS OF THE GUT 52’Hidden deep in our intestines, 100,000 billion bacteria are keeping us healthy by producing a range of molecules. Although they are invisible to the naked eye, they could revolutionize the future of medicine. That is, if our modern lifestyle doesn’t wipe them out first.

A HEALTHY DIET FOR A HEALTHY BRAIN 52’Food goes straight to our brain. So what do eat to make sure our brain stays healthy? Many recent discoveries have shown that our mental health, our moods, and our intellectual ability are directly influenced by what we eat, and sometimes in a matter of just a few days.

A QUEST FOR THE PERFECT ATHLETE 52’Scientists have proved that the mental faculties of high­performance athletes’ are superior to the average brain. Today, psycho­cognitive training is carried out in certain major clubs, to push sportsmen and women even further.

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S C I E N C E

NANOWORLD, THE KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL 52’

Nature is an inexhaustible source of knowledge. After 3 billion years of evolution, it has created amazing mechanisms that allow plants and animals to protect themselves, to grow, to move or to face the attacks of the elements. This “nanoworld” questions our imagination with its beauty and intelligence.PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JUNE 2020

SAPIENS, THE NEW BEGINNING 2x45’ A discovery that revolutionizes all research on mankind’s origins.In remote Morocco, in 1960, in the archeological site of Jebel Irhoud, a remarkable find was made: remains of Homo Sapiens. Today we can date them back to 300.000 years old.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

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TRACKING RUSSIAN HACKERS 52’ For the past 2 years, Russian hackers have been on the front page of Western media. On the international scene, they have become the bad guy. Russian hackers are the new symbol and the figurhead of an agressive Russia that is no content to spy but to attack. But who are they really?

HACKERS FOR FREEDOM 52’A fascinating investigation from the US, France and India, to meet activists and industrials who struggle to defend the free code, not only in the computer business, but every industry such as automobiles or agriculture. The main attraction is to create a practical alternative to the logics of trade and control.

LOOKING FOR MELANIA TRUMP 52’“I am the most bullied person in the world” – Melania Trump complained on the ABC channel. Mocked for her multiple blunders, some see the American First Lady as a schemer who seems to be out of place in the spotlight. Others celebrate her classicism and discretion as a sign of a return to traditional moral values. But who is Melania Trump really?

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JANUARY 2020

GLUTEN, PUBLIC ENNEMY N°1 52’&90’Wheat has always been the staple food of Wheat has always been the staple food of humanity, the very foundation of the first civilizations of the world. But today, for a growing number of people, it has become a poison, which has allowed the emergence of a new market of expensive gluten­free products. How come all of a sudden, many of us no longer support the highly nutritious cereal?

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JUNE 2020

THE RIVAL PRINCES OF THE GULF 52’Heading the Gulf’s oil­monarchies, three of the wealthiest and most powerful princes in the world have just come to power. And yet they are already facing each other in an ego war. This movie sheds a light on the stakes and strategies in this region of the world.

I N V E S T I G A T I O N

WHO CARES? HEALTH: BIG TECHS NEW GOLD RUSH 52’& 90’In 2018, the giants of Silicon Valley suffered their worst drop in stock prices since the global economic crisis of 2008. So to improve its own health, Big Tech has decided to take over ours. Those colossal corporations have already started replacing national health structures by mining their users’ personal data.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020

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I N V E S T I G A T I O N

THE LAWS OF WAR 52’Even in wars, there are rules. One of them, universally recognized, is not to target civilians. What is the situation today? How are these «laws» applied practice in countries like Ukraine, Iraq and Turkey where civil war rage?

RHINO MAFIA 52’&90’A documentary thriller about one of the world’s most profitable illegal trades: Rhinoceros horn. At 50,000 euros per kilo, it sells for a higher price than gold or cocaine... When crushed into a powder and mixed with alcohol, it is said to be a miracle cure. Trafficking has spread to all continents and threatens the biodiversity of our planet, along with the national and economic security of multiple countries.

THE AMERICAN CRUSADE IN AFRICA 58’In October 2011, Barack Obama announced a military operation to track down Joseph Kony, a warlord in central Africa. But after five years, how could the world’s most powerful army have failed to find him? Was it pursuing other objectives? A film to better understand an important episode in African geopolitics.

HAVE FUN IN PYONGYANG 52’ & 70’North Korea does indeed exist beyond the totalitarian varnish covering it. Following the North Korean people’s daily lives we discover an exotic, surprising life that is often rather funny – far from the military and dogmatic seriousness of the regime.

THE GREAT WALL OF JAPAN 52’After the disaster of March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to build a gigantic 15­me­terhigh and 500 kilometers long anti tsunami wall, separating the land and the ocean. But what is the environmental and human impact of it? The population is divided: cutting herself off from the sea or staying vulnerable in front of the big wave?

CHINA’S SUPER COLLECTORS 52’They spend millions in US dollars on works by Picasso, Modigliani, van Gogh or the French Im­pressionists. At the same time, they are bidding for Chinese imperial artefacts ­ and presenting them as trophies. For the first time, wealthy and thus economically and culturally relevant persons open the doors to a Western film team.

I N V E S T I G A T I O N

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ANIMAL ODYSSEY 5x52’65 million years ago, dinosaurs perished, allowing the advent of mammals on every conti nent. Over that time, climates have changed, continents have shifted, oceans and seas have risen and died out, new predators have appeared provoking the evolution of these animals and great migrations for survival often far from where they were first seen, from one continent to another. Scientists use the latest research of evolutionary paleontology to tell the 65 million year odyssey of animals we think we know so well: the monkey, the elephant, the horse, the bear and the kangaroo.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHARKS 52’We have been taught that sharks are violent hunters and blood thirsty ogers of the sea. This film intends to break down these preconceived ideas and reveal the lesser, gentler known aspects of the nature of sharks: delicate, smart, often harmless and essential to our eco system.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JUNE 2020

700 SHARKS 90’, 52’, 46’A 4K special in which we dive for the first time by night into a feeding frenzy of 700 sharks in Polynesia, the largest concentration of sharks in the world. Filmed with very ambitious camera gear, this documentary reveals unprecedented social behavior of sharks.

TRACKING THE ARCTIC GIANTS 52’All along the Arctic coast of Norway, there’s a bloody battle going on between three different species: orcas, whales…and humans! And it’s all over the vast schools of herring that migrate to the Frozen North to seek shelter there in the fjords.!

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

KILLER KITTY 52’The cat… like you’ve never seen it before! We forget that despite almost 10 000 years of domestication, this live cuddly toy is also a wild predator. This is a journey in those zones where endangered species need protection from it.

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N A T U R E & D I S C O V E R Y

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SURVIVING IN THE LAGOON 52’In the heart of the Pacific, between the lagoon and the ocean, unrolls one of Nature’s greatest spectacles. This is the story of a little surgeon fish who will have to go through the greatest ordeals from the moment he is born.Filmed in UHD and extreme slow motion, this film captures exclusive wildlife behavior of sharks, whales, manta rays, groupers, and more.

THE MONGOL HORSE TAMER 52’ & 90’In the Darhat valley of northern Mongolia, the horses of the nomadic tribes are disappearing. Bandits are stealing them. But Shukhert, a crime-fighting Darhat horseman, is relentlessly pursuing them to the Taiga mountain range of Mongolia, on the border with Siberia.

VANUATU, AN ODYSSEY AT THE END OF THE WORLD 52’Hernin and Marcellin Abong are two Vanuatu twin brothers with very different backgrounds: one has become the “Very Great Chief” of his tribe, while the other is an ethno­archaeologist. Their culture is slowly but surely disappearing forever. To keep a record of it, they both delve into the most remote parts of Vanuatu in search of the customs and rites of their people.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JULY 2020

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N A T U R E & D I S C O V E R Y

VOLCANO STORIES 20x26'This stunning hosted 20x26' take us to 40 volcanoes around the world to learn about the fire giants from people who live at their foot and from scientists who protect us from their danger. A beautiful and immersive series to the heart of this living, shifting, and changing planet, to shed light on the infinite diversity of these volcanic stories.

LIVING WITH VOLCANOES 6x52’Half a billion people around the world live at the foot of volcanoes. Creators and destructors of life, these fire mountains have always been feared, loved, worshipped and respected by those who live by their side. In this collection, we filmed 55 volcanoes across 6 continents during 3 years to meet geologists and inhabitants whose culture was forged by their symbiotic link with volcanos. One episode, one facet: sacred, destructive, benevolent, source of knowledge, extreme and mysterious.Already available: 4 x 52’

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY FOR 2 EXCLUSIVE 52’ IN UHD: DECEMBER 2020 HD

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DESTINATIONS 200x13' and more to comeFar from the frenzy of urban life, DESTINATIONS is an invitation to enjoy the simple pleasure of traveling to the four corners of the world to discover places that inspired the great artists, resulting in an exchange between a land, a town, a landscape and a work of art.

N A T U R E & D I S C O V E R Y

LANDS OF WOMEN 5x52’From India to the Bijagos archipelago, discover the last of the world’s matriarchies through the stories of the women who run them. Each of the five films in the collection is an immersion into one of these societies, through the eyes of a woman whose most intimate dreams and desires we will share.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

MONASTERIES OF EUROPE 5x52’What is happening today in European monasteries? Why do young people leave the “normal” world to devote their lives to spirituality? Let’s embark on a journey to discover the sources of Europe and share the life of monastic communities from Ireland to Russia and from Greece to Germany.

GEO – SEASON 20 – 26x52’ Whether they depict deep­sea divers in the Bermuda triangle or game keepers in the far reaches of the Siberian forest, these films provide us with insights into the lives and work of exceptional men and women.

WELCOME TO MY STRANGE CITY 6x52'Everywhere on the planet cities seem to pop up and grow, sometimes despite climatic or geographical conditions that seem impossible to live in. How do people acclimate to lead a normal life? Follow Alexandra, a travel reporter, to meet those living in the most extreme cities of the world.

RITUALS OF THE WORLD 15x26'Fire dancing in Papua New Guinea or climbing to the top of the Ethiopian cliffs to introduce one’s child to God: this series reveals how some people today still practice rituals that structure their lives and become, beyond a simple social bond, a structuring force and a source of culture. Anthropologist, Anne­Sylvie Malbrancke, helps us understand and experience these moments with those who practice them.

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I N V E S T I G A T I O N

FOOD MAKERS GO GLOBAL 5x26’When Eastern food meets Western food, outstanding dishes are created! In a light travel and culinary series, meet real people who share ageold skills from two very different parts of the world to introduce us to unique flavours and products. A common fight against standardiza­tion.

L I F E S T Y L E

A TASTE OF FRANCE 8x52’Spurred by their passion and ambition, talented international chefs are reviving the spirit of French cuisine with renewed vigor. Journey with them as they dive into the fascinating stories behind France’s regional products from Corsica, Provence, Burgundy… to compose authentic, sophisticated and delicious French menus.

PARIS FASHION WEEK 4x52’Discover the latest trends, the hottest designers, the most beautiful models, and incredible VIPs. Not to mention Anna Wintour! Come with us around the Fashion globe! ALSO AVAILABLE: THE NEW FASHION (2x40’)

F A S H I O N

ISABEL MARANT, BIRTH OF A COLLECTION 52’She is renowned worldwide for her fashion sense that combines chic and casual. Isabel Marant is pivotal in the world of fashion. She dresses up “real girls”, not fantasies. We will follow her from the first beginnings of a collection to its realization on the podium. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

LOUBOUTIN, THE PATHS OF CREATION 52’He’s one of the most fascinating designer of our time and he raised the shoe to the status of an absolute icon, laying out a canvas where multiple influences cross one another. The main emphasis of the documentary will be on Christian Louboutin’s creative journey. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

A JOURNEY WITH SHOES 52’From the first rough hessian to glossy, towering, highly expensive Louboutin, shoes have sympbolized status, power and sex appeal. This fim tells how shoes revel how we live and the social class we inhibit, while following the making of a «perfect shoe» by highly successful shoemakers Preston and Zly and 3 wannabe shoe desigers.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

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JANE FONDA 52’Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aerobic queen, activist and fearless businesswoman…

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JANUARY 2020

FANTASTIC MISTER MURRAY 52’Outside of his films, Bill Murray is almost always an elusive man. He hates interviews but isn’t a misanthrope. He prefers to be where we don’t expect him. This film reveals the extraordinary character behind the famous actor. You will discover the origin of his comedic genius, his passions, his causes...

JULIE ANDREWS FOREVER 52’Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for her performance as Mary Poppins, a symbol of the magic of musicals from the 1960s. And yet, behind the squeaky­clean image hides a much more tortuous career, with its moments of glory and tough times

HTCHCOCK CONFIDENTIAL 52’We may think that everything has been said about the great Alfred, but what do we really know about the man behind the director? Through the intimate, gentle and critical eyes of his wife and collaborator, Alma, this film will allow us to discover Hitchcock anew, between darkness and light.

JOHN WAYNE, AMERICA AT ALL COSTS 52’Archetype of a heroic cowboy or uncompromi­sing macho: Wayne fascinates. The film reveals the man through his unexpected – but real ­ frailty, and portrays its hero at the twilight of his life. The aim of this film is to make a connexion between “the patriot artist” and the real man.

DR. JACK AND MR. NICHOLSON 52’No one can resist his killer smile. With his immediately recognizable physique, Jack Nicholson is a far cry from the Californian playboy, at once undeniably sexy, yet singularly scary... How did this common young man beco­me the icon of counterculture overnight?

P O P C U LT U R E

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THE CARAVAGGIO CASE 52’&90’This film offers an exceptional insight into the history of a masterpiece rediscovered after four centuries in the wilderness. In April 2016, a shockwave went through the art world. A long­lost Caravaggio canvas had been found near Toulouse. The work was valued at 120 million euros. But where did this painting come from? Is it really by Caravaggio?

LEONARDO’S REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECE 52’&90’There are less than 20 paintings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Finding or identifying a new one is a once in a lifetime event. The 16th century Madonna and the Yardwiner is believed by some renowned world experts, including from the Louvre, to be painted by the great master. Several versions of the portrait exists, notably one exposed in Scotland, but which one is authentic and which one is a copy? This documentary is an investigation across Europe, led by leading art professionals, to determine which Madonna and the Yardwiner is the real deal. A rare dive into the art world to better understand the genius of Da Vinci.

A R T & C U LT U R E

MODIGLIANI AND HIS SECRETS 52' Modigliani’s work is among the most reco­gnizable in modern art, but we know almost nothing about the man himself. Based on an ongoing scientific study, the film reveals the secrets behind the myths surrounding this Bohemian artist, to coincide with the centenary of his death in 1920.

100th ANNIVERSARYPROVISIONAL DELIVERY: APRIL 2020

ROMANTICISM (1835- 1875) THE ADVENTURERS OF ART 4x52' Portraying the 19th century Parisian Art and literary scene through the intimate lives of the most respected musicians, writers, painters of the time; artists who broke new grounds in the history of art and ideas. Their names are: Victor Hugo, George Sand, Nadar, Frédric Chopin, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Charles Baudelaire.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: APRIL 2021

ARTISTS AND LOVE 5x26’This documentary series will tell the story of intimate and tumultuous love stories in the context of art history. A love story is a fasci­nating detour that can lead us to discover and rediscover an artistic journey and the works that are born from its romantic encounters. With: Amedao Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, Lee Miller and Man Ray, Gerda Taro and Robert Capa and more.

4 NEW EPISODES COMING APRIL 2020

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NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS: THE SECRETS OF THE BUILDERS 2x52' Last April, the world held its breath as Notre Dame, the most wondrous of cathedrals, almost burnt to the ground and with her 800 years of history. Our film tells Notre Dame’s story, starting in the Middle Ages, when master builders reinvented the art of construction to erect Gothic cathedrals. Eight centuries of passion, talent, blood, destruction and rebirth, during which time the cathedral witnessed some tumultuous moments in the history of France, from the most glorious to its darkest periods. A gripping docu drama using 3D animation combined with exclusive footage and interviews of historians, scientists, architects and engineers.PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: FEBRUARY 2020

H I S T O R Y

VERSAILLES, AN UNDERGROUND MEGASTRUCTURE 52’If the Versailles Palace is renowned throughout the world, it is mainly for its fountains; each year, some 10 million visitors come to admire them. But how many actually know that they work thanks to 35 km of piping and 70,000 m3 of water? How did these millions of cubic meters of water get the pressure necessary to make so much water flow? Where does Versailles’ water come from? How is it supplied and managed?

EIFFEL TOWER: A BUILDING WONDER 52’ Delve into the Eiffel Tower’s breathtaking history, from its construction to the present day ­ thanks to spectacular images and an original 3D vision that retraces the main stages of its construction step by step.

THE BIRTH OF HAUTE CUISINE 52’ & 90' Haute cuisine is a modern luxury that was invented over a century ago by one man. Auguste Escoffier revolutionized French cooking and dining experience and made them a world reference in culinary arts.He became the legendary chef of the first luxury hotels: the Ritz in Paris, the Savoy and Carlton in London and then, New York.

AN OPERA FOR AN EMPIRE 52’ & 90’Famous for its ghost, the Garnier Opera House is above all the product of a titanic building site and the window of a time, the Second Empire. This 90­minute documentary aims to tell the story of the great Paris construction of the Garnier Opera House, which lasted 14 years (from 1861 to 1875).PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: APRIL 2020

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EGYPT: THE BURIAL OF SACRED BULLS 52’

Saqqara, Egypt, 1850. Auguste Mariette discovered the Serapeum, the burial place of the Apis bull, one of the most sacred sites in ancient Egypt. Today, a mission mandated by the Louvre will write the next chapter in one of the greatest adventures in the history of archeology.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020

THE TRUE STORY OF KING TUT’S TREASURE 52’ & 90’Almost 100 years after the discovery of King’s Tut’s Tomb, this film uses 2D and 3D imagery to reconstruct the tomb, the mummy, the funerary objects and the topography of the famous valley of the Kings. A surprising archaeological investigation.

THE MYSTERY OF RASCAR CAPAC MUMMY 52’A team of archeologists will analyze with mo­dern technology the mysterious pre Colombian mummy that inspired Hergé in The Seven Crystal Balls. Where did he come from ? What was his life and how did he die ?

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

EGYPT: THE TEMPLES SAVED FROM THE NILE 52’ & 90’In 1945, Nasser’s project to build a lake in Sou­thern Egypt threatened to submerge hundreds of ancient temples, including of Ramses II and Cleopatra. Thanks to an unprecedented interna­tional mobilization, discover how this exceptio­nal heritage was saved.

HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM 4x52’Anti­Judaism, Judeophobia, hatred of Jews... Anti­Semitism is a long­standing phenomenon – but where does it come from?It has evolved for more than two thousand years, while many different societies rose and fell.This investigation retraces the genealogy of anti­Semitism, from its origins to the present day – and for the first time with images. Some thirty leadinginternational experts have created a fresco that will explore the multiple facets of the phenomenon and its evolution through the ages. To do so, they havebeen drawing on the traces left throughout the world and the 3D historical reconstructions deve­loped by Ubisoft for its Assassin’s Creed series.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JUNE 2020

H I S T O R Y

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THE STORY OF DRUG TRAFFICKING 3x52’There are few commodities as global as drugs.From the 1880’s to today, discover the incredible saga of global drug trafficking, heroin, cocaine, opium, cannabis and other synthetic drugs. How this trade influenced relations between states, global financial interests, secret diplomacies, secret special forces and mafias, on all continents over a century in a half. In a in depth chronological investigation, global geo politics and power struggles between states will be analyzed through an original angle.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

H I S T O R Y

CUBA , THE REVOLUTION AND THE WORLD 2x52'For the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in 2019, with views from every side–the Cubans, the Russians, the Americans and the rest – this filmreveals the history of Cuba as never before. Who could imagine that from their Caribbean island, the efforts of Castro and his compatriots would contribute to changing the world?

NELSON MANDELA BEYOND THE MYTH 52’Mandela’s legend is built in his absence, during his 27­ year incarceration. In 1990, when Nelson Mandela is released, South Africa is waiting for their Messiah. He doesn’t know it yet, he is the most famous political prisoner of the Planet. Will he be up to the challenge?

Also available: MAHATMA GANDHI, BEYOND THE MYTH

C O N T E M P O R A R Y H I S T O R Y

ATOM: 150 YEARS OF LIES 52’This film is an historical investigation of radioactivity. From the Curies to Fukushima, from the bombings to nuclear disasters, it will make sense of the accounts by victims, the soldiers and children contaminated by nuclear fallout. It will also reveal the lies conveyed by the world of the atom. The stories of nuclear workers, the irradiated of Hiroshima, the American soldiers of the «USS Ronald Reagan» and the children of Fukushima enable us to measure the indifference and cynicism of the military and civil powers, and the arrogance of the nuclear industry.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2019

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HITLER’S EVIL SCIENCE 2x52’Between History and Science, this doc highlights an unknown chapter of the “Nazi Center for Scientific Research“ settled in the 30s and dedicated to legitimate the political Nazi Project and the Final Solution

MY LIFE IN GERMANY AT WAR 2x52’This film, consisting entirely of archives, willrecount the daily lives of both German civiliansand soldiers during the six years of WW2, fromits start in September 1939 up to the monthsfollowing the German surrender. A plunge intothe private lives of a people on the path to selfdestruction. By Jérôme PrieurPROVISIONAL DELIVERY: OCTOBER 2020

THE GOERING CATALOG 52’&90’For more than a decade, the number two in the Third Reich amassed a collection of more than 5,000 art works, all meticulously detailed in a catalog. But how did Hermann Goering get his hands on these works? PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: MARCH 2020

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THE HISTORY OF RED ARMY 2x52’ For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the foundations of the USSR, an instrument of fear as well as admiration, a symbol of liberation as well as coercion. While everyone knows that Trotsky’s name is attached to his creation, most of its past is made up of military defeats and failures, contrary to the common idea.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: SEPTEMBER 2020

THE UNGEMACH EXPERIMENT, A STORY OF EUGENICS 52’ In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experience was en­dorsed by both political and scientific authori­ties, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s!

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: JULY 2020

DATES THAT MADE HISTORY 10x26’This series tells world history through a few major dates, revisited through the prism of memory. Driven by the accessible and passio­nate delivery of historian Patrick Boucheron, history comes to life under our eyes with bold and entertaining graphics.

PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2020

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