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- School headmaster Kevin McArevey tries to change the fortunes of an inner-city Irish community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
- In the summer of 1945, the American authorities instructed two young soldiers, Budd and Stuart Schulberg, to gather visual evidence attesting to Nazi crimes, with a view to the trial against twenty-four dignitaries of the Third Reich which was preparing for Nuremberg. The sons of an eminent producer, already experienced in the cinema business, they must (under the aegis of filmmaker John Ford, head of the Office of Strategic Services, OSS) support the accusation of chief prosecutor Robert Jackson. In four months of high-risk investigation across devastated Europe, the Schulbergs manage to save hundreds of hours of footage, much of it taken by the Nazis, from destruction. Their editing team then worked tirelessly to complete before the opening of the trial on November 21, 1945, films exposing the atrocities perpetrated after Hitler's seizure of power, from the first pogroms to the concentration camp system, and their premeditated nature. Without the help of his brother, who has resumed his work as a screenwriter in the United States, Stuart Schulberg is then responsible, alongside the Soviet Roman Karmen, for filming the main stages of the procedure, a first in the history of justice. . They are only allowed to shoot thirty-five hours of rushes over more than ten months of hearings, but the sound recordings of the entire proceedings will allow Stuart to produce Nuremberg: its Lesson for Today, a documentary that the American authorities, facing to Cold War emergencies, finally decide to bury in 1948.
- A woman wages an uphill struggle to put her life back together in this neo-realist drama from France. Louise is a divorcee in her early fifties who is having a hard time making ends meet on her own, she works as a cleaning woman and lives in her car but raising enough money for an apartment always seems to be just out of her reach.
- Revisits the two rounds of the 2007 French presidential election (April 22 and May 6, 2007), where Conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy won a clear victory over his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal. Faced with the activist, the journalist, the political figure and the gigantic media device set up for the occasion, the audience is taken on board without real or comprehensive explanations. Strangely, the chaos seems organized. Just like when we are considering the range of 'unplanned' events that get media exposure, so much so that we wonder if they really are being planned. Is all this period of unrest visibly set in motion by social activists, agitators, ordinary people, politicians, publicity agents?
- 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, our eight-part film about the destruction of Europe's Jews sets out to explore a story whose roots go back to before the start of the 20th century, and which is still playing out today.
- A true spy story about the only American citizen who dared stand up to the FBI in an attempt to expose the truth on some specific yet hidden aspects of today's War on Terror and give the American people the protection and security the U.S. government has failed to provide.
- In the early days of the system, that came to be known as Capitalism, political economists of all stripes struggled to understand the laws that govern the flow of capital - and of Capitalism's related activities. As a result, a critical assessment and sketchy understanding of how Capitalism worked began to emerge. But in recent times, as the system, and the world, has grown a hundredfold more complex we have veered away from the pursuit of any clear, critical understanding of the phenomenon. Economic departments in most major universities in the English-speaking world have abolished courses in the history of Economic and political economy. We are left with incomprehensible mathematical models whose relevance to the real world is hotly disputed. We were told very little about Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus yet their names have been used to give legitimacy to contemporary economic activities. To further obscure the issues, this « econo speak » has been supplemented by endless superficial news reports, pundits discussions and analysis filled with clichés and superficial information. Our series intends to puncture this veil of opacity to go beyond the current « econo- speak » to re examine the ideas which have been used in the past 40 to reshape the world. Is today's economic crisis a temporary blimp on the road to progress or a symptom of a deeper crisis of the system as a whole? Can the big ideas of the at the heart of our Economic system help us understand today's economic crisis, or obscure it? And more importantly - can they show us a way out?
- Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
- From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classic instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo's avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness.
- In Georgia a man in his 40s, Levan, is waiting in a clinic for an MRI examination. He needs to find out what's causing the pain in his shoulder. He's nervous. By the time he leaves the hospital he's not the same man. His anxiety quickly spreads to his wife and well-meaning friends. The family courtyard becomes the scene of an informal advisory council, where everybody suggests magical cures and must-see specialists. Soon Levan's savings are gone. He's scared of losing his job, his heath and his wife, who has started to come home later and later. But suddenly, out of nowhere - a serendipitous event occurs.
- This is a somnambulists' tale. There's Françoise, who goes back to Rennes to teach History of Art at the university, many years after studying there.
- From the beginning of his film career, at the dawn of the 1940s, John Huston had only one idea: to preserve his freedom. If he knew how to free himself from Hollywood, his tour de force was to obtain from the big studios the stars he wanted and especially the colossal budgets he needed to shoot in natural settings, preferably wild ones. From "The Maltese Falcon" to "People of Dublin", directed shortly before his death in 1987, including "The Odyssey of the African Queen", "The Night of the Iguana", "Moby Dick", "The Misfits" and "Under the Volcano", the filmmaker made a specialty of bringing to the screen great literary works that were deemed unsuitable.
- Russian hints that the country could hand over America's most wanted whistle blower as a favor to Donald Trump place Edward Snowden in even greater danger than before. A secret meeting between global freedom and civil rights campaigners Snowden, Birgitta Jonsdottir and Larry Lessig turns into a freewheeling discussion about the future of democracy. Birgitta Jonsdottir has been a member of Iceland's parliament since 2009. All her actions have been aimed at giving the people back their voice and opening up the parliamentary process and political decision-making. Larry Lessig is a Harvard law professor. He tirelessly denounces the influence of money in US politics and the way establishment elites collude to support each other against the public interest. The three activists agreed to be filmed during an extraordinary conversation about their ongoing struggles, the last bastions of democracy and the opportunities and choices still left to us. The questions they ask are fundamental. Can democracy be saved? What unites us? How can you tell when democracy has failed?
- Short biography of the great actress, Julie Andrews. From her childhood in London to her later roles.
- Powerful rivers flow between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic, known as gaves. Human activity is altering the water cycle and its biodiversity. Men and women look curiously and lovingly at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster.
- Inspired by real events. Where is the missing father Albino Rodrigue, who was suppose to pickup his daughter, but never did?
- Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America versus the public battle for truth and democracy.
- The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish womens swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
- In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fresco on the Soviet camps sparked a violent awakening to the reality of the regime. Through archives and interviews, we take a fascinating look back at the destiny of this monumental work, which remains a burning issue in Putin's Russia.
- The incredible story of the publication of the book of Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago". Some manuscripts of this work that are considered "anti-Soviet" are an act of rebellion.
- The story of the terrible tragedy of Vincent Lambert, who lived in a vegetative state for 11 years.
- A minister commits suicide at the Élysée palace. To contain the impact on public opinion and prevent the case from becoming a national scandal, the French president turns to Claire Ferran, a specialist in crisis communication. Little by little, she begins to make disturbing discoveries...
- Roxana is a young Romanian nanny looking after 8-year-old Georges, the son of David and Elizabeth. David's a financier at the European Bank of Strasbourg. Working on a project for a motorway across Romania, David asks Roxana for some help.