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The health of Louis XIII and Louis XIV can be studied by analysing their mummified hearts. And perhaps even unravel the mystery of the legend that fragments of these hearts were used to paint pictures...
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In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
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Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.
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In Paris during the Roaring Twenties, a West Indian ball was the crucible of a new black identity. Based on this controversial venue, the documentary follows the young West Indians who came to metropolitan France and discovered their country divided between racism and fascination.
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The islet of Cabrera, near Majorca, was used between 1809 and 1814 as a prison for 11,000 Napoleonic soldiers, of whom only 3,500 survived. The details of this captivity are now being studied by historians and archaeologists.
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21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
Learn moreGoing back to the historical and political foundations of an orchestrated and planned tragedy, the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, this story shows how a Rwandan elite transformed Rwanda into a theatre of absolute horror.
Learn moreIn 1984, businessman Georges Gutelman agrees to put his airline at the service of a secret Mossad operation to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews who have taken refuge in Sudan. A leak to the press compromised the mission.
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