Thomas Sipp

Mushrooms could be man's best allies in the struggle against sanitary and environmental challenges that are threatening our societies. A select group of species, known as Super Fungi, are incredibly effective at tasks ranging from digesting oil waste to enabling the growth of trees in the desert. We are just becoming acquainted with one of Earth's most versatile and powerful organisms, the lowly fungus.

On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its knees. Millions of people died as a result.

Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.

In June 1941, Hitler decides to break the German-Soviet pact and set the German army in motion toward Moscow. From summer to winter, and from Kiev to Leningrad, previously unseen archival footage, some recolored, retraces the bloodiest military operation of World War II. Testimonies from soldiers and civilians recount these endless months of battles and sieges.