Vive la France

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visitors, and the city celebrated itself in a...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only ones to laugh? In the past, scientists tended to neglect such questions of laughter,...

In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his...

For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and corresponded to stereotypes such as the pretty...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitterrand traces the entire life of the...

Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely enlightening, downright entertaining,...

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and...

A documentary which takes a dispassionate look at the "born again Christian" phenomenon, by examining the power source of the fundamentalist...