The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024

8.21

The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.

2024

A Secret Love

A Secret Love 2020

7.30

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

2020

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes 2001

7.00

The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.

2001

Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences

Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences 2024

8.20

It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people died, including many holidaymakers from Germany and France. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, survivors tell their stories. How has the disaster affected their lives to this day?

2024

Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court 1936

6.60

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.

1936

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt 2024

7.80

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying of hunger. Countless of these starving people wrote diaries with the last of their strength, and cameramen filmed in the paralyzed city. Evidence from the hell of the siege, many of the film recordings, but above all the written memories on which this documentary on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation is based, remained under lock and key after the war. The voices of those who had suffered through this terrible time should not be heard by anyone, because they did not fit the pathos of the Leningrad heroic song that was officially sung. Most of the recordings come from women. The writers feared neither the enemy nor the Communist Party or Stalin, who often proved incompetent in providing for the population.

2024

Modern Life

Modern Life 2008

7.60

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

2008

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel 2023

5.70

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Louis de Funès, this documentary by Jacques Pessis pays tribute to the cult actor by retracing his career through excerpts of his greatest successes in the cinema and in the music hall, never-before-seen archives, as well as testimonies from personalities and relatives.

2023

Andrée Putman, A Juggernaut of Design

Andrée Putman, A Juggernaut of Design 2023

8.00

An icon of French taste, free and eccentric, Andrée Putman (1925–2013) imposed her unique style and shaped a generation of architects. With archival images and personal testimonials, this documentary is a beautiful tribute to one of the leading ladies of interior design.[arte.tv]

2023

Michael Jackson: Chase the Truth

Michael Jackson: Chase the Truth 2019

7.20

Taking an investigative look into the legal battles of the global superstar. Close friends, former staff and researchers paint an intimate portrait of Jackson's complicated world and put allegations of sexual abuse under the microscope. The film defends American singer Michael Jackson against allegations of child sexual abuse made in the documentary Leaving Neverland.

2019

Profils paysans : le quotidien

Profils paysans : le quotidien 2005

7.20

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

2005

Celine Dion: Rise of a Diva

Celine Dion: Rise of a Diva 2024

7.00

In 1988, 20-year-old Céline Dion won Eurovision for Switzerland with the song ‘Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi’, a moment that kickstarted her international career and propelled the young Celine to world fame. This documentary looks back through the archives at an event that changed the Quebec singer's life, with interviews from the song’s composer as well as from Scott Fitzgerald, the British singer who was runner up at Eurovision 1988, beaten by just one point.

2024

The Death Train

The Death Train 2019

8.00

In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.

2019

Storm Front in Mayo

Storm Front in Mayo 2019

7.50

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

2019

The Abused Children of Riaumont

The Abused Children of Riaumont 2024

8.00

For decades, the pupils of the Riaumont children's village in northern France, run by Catholic monks and priests, were subjected to abuse and sexual violence. Until 2019, thousands of children were beaten, forced into hard labour and sexually abused. Former residents tell their stories in this sobering documentary.

2024

Tukdam – Between Worlds

Tukdam – Between Worlds 2022

8.00

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such assumptions through its exploration of a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. In what Tibetan Buddhists call tukdam, advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner. Though dead according to our biomedical standards, they often stay sitting upright in meditation; remarkably, their bodies remain fresh and lifelike, without signs of decay for days, sometimes weeks after clinical death. Following ground-breaking scientific research into tukdam and taking us into intimate death stories of Tibetan meditators, the film juxtaposes scientific and Tibetan perspectives as it tries to unravel the mystery of tukdam.

2022

Back to Chernobyl

Back to Chernobyl 2020

8.20

The film tells the story of the Chernobyl accident through a mosaic of unique personal testimonies of its participants. The experiences of the difficult past and the sad results of the present recreate the full picture of the accident 30 years later.

2020

Tsunami: Race Against Time

Tsunami: Race Against Time 2024

7.80

The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami as it travels from country to country, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.

2024

Kingdom of Dreams

Kingdom of Dreams 2022

8.20

'Kingdom of Dreams' is a stunning four-part series chronicling three critical decades of the fashion world, from the early 1990s through to the 2010s. Described as a Golden Age, this period of time was an era of disruption and innovation as the traditional fashion business bumped heads against the young and exciting international visionaries who were shaking up the industry. Using rare library material, never-before-seen personal archives and story-driven interviews, explore a pivotal time in fashion history up close.

2022

Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction

Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction 2024

9.00

Posting up at a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, a town infamous for its UFO past, Horowitz and Newton meet with individuals who have experienced strange and unexplainable encounters.

2024

Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies

Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies 2022

8.00

Craig Charles, the BBC 6 Music Radio DJ, star of Red Dwarf and Coronation Street, hosts the show alongside world renowned space journalist astrophysicist, and award-winning author Sarah Cruddas. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies follows sci-fi favourite and long-time UFO enthusiast Craig and astrophysicist Sarah as they scrutinise compelling evidence relating to some of the most perplexing UFO encounters of recent years, revealing never before heard testimony to separate fact from fiction and ask: are the unexplained aerial phenomena prowling our skies extra-terrestrial?

2022

Chasing the Moon

Chasing the Moon 2019

8.40

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.

2019

Growing Up

Growing Up 2022

6.70

An innovative hybrid docu-series that explores the challenges, joys and complexities of adolescence through ten compelling coming-of-age stories. Growing Up draws on storytelling, experimentation and documentary to let 18- to 21-year-olds tell their stories.

2022

Navy SEALs: America's Secret Warriors

Navy SEALs: America's Secret Warriors 2017

7.50

An in-depth look at the elite fighting force, including the physical, psychological and spiritual process of becoming a SEAL, the training required to become a member of SEAL Team 6 and a history of spectacular SEAL missions.

2017