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Total trailers found: 47
The 1001 Faces of Palmyra Trailer (2021)
17 April 2021
Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At the crossroads of trade routes, Palmyra attracted caravanners from Mesopotamia, India and China.
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai Trailer (1979)
25 June 1979
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.
Germaine et ses copains Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a half-blind old man.
Discovering the Music of Antiquity Trailer (2021)
19 June 2021
The discovery of an ancient music score in the Louvre sets researchers on a mission to recreate the music as it was originally heard by the Greeks 2,400 years ago.
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years.
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm Trailer (1966)
01 January 1966
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing the subtle plays of the right and left hand of Dogon drummers.
Germaine chez elle Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of the 1930s.
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara.
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress Trailer (2019)
14 July 2019
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 welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor Trailer (2016)
23 February 2016
Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects of hunting and fishing.
700 Sharks Trailer (2018)
09 June 2018
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 hundred grey sharks.
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth Trailer (2017)
24 December 2017
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.
Les inséparables Trailer (2008)
10 December 2008
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.
Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect Trailer (2015)
05 December 2015
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of historians.
L'empire des nombres Trailer (2001)
22 September 2001
How did men learn to count? How do they count? The empire of numbers is a very rhythmic graphic film that tells the great history of numbers, from the caves to modern times.
The Blob: A Genius without a Brain Trailer (2019)
26 October 2019
This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel) Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger.
Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth Trailer (2011)
15 October 2011
From her birth in Warsaw to her entry into the Pantheon, Maria Skłodowska-Curie's work and career is a myth.
The Mystery of Dark Matter Trailer (2012)
04 October 2012
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.
Somnolence Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
Close and daily, sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important place in our lives.
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham Trailer (1986)
01 October 1986
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.
Drums from the Past Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion.
Horendi Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
A seven-day initiation ceremony is documented in which two women undergo ritual healing following a diagnosis of spirit possession, presented without narration, intertitles, or explanatory commentary.
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace Trailer (2019)
07 March 2019
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles.
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre Trailer (1976)
02 May 1976
Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror portrays her friend as a politician, a poet, and a founder of the Négritude movement.
Brains in Danger Trailer (2017)
11 November 2017
For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders.
Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ? Trailer (2014)
24 January 2014
All over the world, women are shorter than men on average. Even among Northern Europeans, currently the tallest people in the world, men are around 15 centimetres taller than women.
Oceans The Mystery of the Missing Plastic Trailer (2016)
17 September 2016
99% of the plastic that should be floating in the oceans is missing. Even accounting for the plastic that washes up on beaches or is trapped in arctic ice, millions of tonnes has simply disappeared.
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins Trailer (2013)
02 November 2013
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.
The Mysteries of the Giants Trailer (2018)
04 October 2018
When a huge meteorite crashed into the earth 66 million years ago and caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs, some of the planet’s tiniest species survived the cataclysm, and—against all odds—eventually became some of the greatest giants to ever roam the earth.
Kurdistan: The Untold Story of Mesopotamia Trailer (2018)
28 December 2018
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.
Petra, the Capital of the Desert Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
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 mankind; but its secrets are gradually being revealed thanks to an enormous excavation work.
Enquête sur les trésors enfouis de Notre-Dame de Paris Trailer (2024)
30 November 2024
Three years after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeological excavations uncovered treasures that had been hidden beneath the building for centuries: In addition to numerous sculpture fragments, there were also two human-shaped lead coffins.
La Colline des chefs Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Luc Bachelot, a researcher with the CNRS, has been directing since 1994 the French archeological mission at Tell Shioukh Faouqâni in Syria and coordinates the excavations that are carried out there.
