Every Ariane launch is a high-risk adventure. Here's a look back at the countdown to the launch of Ariane 5, ESA's launch vehicle. In the world's largest space launch center, a world of its own is revealed.

A feature documentary about the story and legacy of free-diver Jacques Mayol, whose life became the inspiration for Luc Besson’s cult-movie The Big Blue.

A moving, joyful and intimate portrait of Aurélie Dupont, prima ballerina at the Paris National Opera, and guest-star on the world's greatest stages.


What role did animals play in the Third Reich? How did they become one of the main components of Nazi racial ideology, and a justification for the horrors of the Holocaust?

"Monuments Revealed" is an ambitious collection on great constructions that bear witness to an amazing scientific knowledge and a rich cultural heritage from the past. These buildings are the physical incarnation of great civilizations of antiquity.

From the cell to the organism, from the molecule to the ecosystem, life abounds... Biology has observed this fascinating nature in order to understand and control it. Today, life engineers want to create new organisms.

A political-scientific thriller about GMOs, shedding light on a crucial debate about the future of the world's food supply and the preservation of public health and the environment.

France, Germany, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom: to each day its destination. By taking us on a trip through Europe, this series draws a captivating chronicle of modern societies.

"The Origami Code" explores this silent on-going revolution, the deciphering and mastering of a completely new dimension of reality.

How Hitler set up a veritable drug arms race, with the creation of a new substance supposed to give a feeling of invincibility: pervitin, otherwise known today as “crystal meth”.

80 years later, thanks to 5 extremely valuable photographs, discover what truly happened that day, under the Hiroshima cloud.

In the Philippines, it's a religion. In Japan, it's an essential part of society and the economy. All over the world, its followers now number in the millions. Karaoke has become a key cultural and popular element.

From Mumbai to Dubai, via Tangiers and the Maldives, this gripping thriller-like investigation reveals the inner workings of a global emergency: the treat to sand, a vital resource whose plundering is accelerating.

The prestigious series on boys and girls around the world who must face impressive ordeals to become adults.

Through the words of six young women who have been subjected to domestic abuse, this film unravels the pattern of intimate partner violence in the hope of raising awareness and chaging things for the better.

A bucolic stroll through woods to observe its incredibly dense ecosystem.

For the first time ever, a camera has managed to film in the mining areas of the Katanga province.

A journey through India to the understanding of a seasonal climatic phenomenon as vital as destructive.