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French TV documentary series, covering the circumstances surrounding notable films.

The story sounds like a gripping thriller: almost 400 years after its publication, a previously unknown copy of Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius", the "Starry Messenger", has appeared on the international book market. Unlike in the known copies, Galileo allegedly drew the moons himself. Who is behind the forgery?

Climate change is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. A study conducted across all continents sounds the alarm about the urgent need to preserve them.

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

La Case du Siècle is a French television program launched in 2010 and broadcast on France 5. Hosted by Fabrice d'Almeida, it airs documentaries every Sunday that aim to shed light on the history of the 20th century, both in France and around the world. Through these documentaries, viewers can deepen their knowledge of a specific subject or simply discover a particular era. *La Case du siècle* offers an in-depth look at the events that changed the course of history.

In July 1933, a few months after Hitler seized power, William E. Dodd arrived in Berlin. His appointment as ambassador of the United States of America by President Roosevelt came as a surprise.

In the form of a gripping social thriller, Saeed Roustayi's "The Law of Tehran" (2019) offers a striking insight into the war declared on drug traffickers by the authorities. We look back at the making of a film that revealed the extent of the drug scourge in Iran today.

Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.

French current affair show

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.

The film tells the story of the incredible fate of pianist Clara Haskil. She was celebrated very early as a prodigy. At the tender age of five, she was sent by her family from Bucharest to Vienna, and later, under the care of her strict uncle, to Paris to continue her studies. She will suffer from chronic health issues, survive two world wars, anti-Semitism, before having to go into exile in Vevey, Switzerland. That’s where she found the proper support, in the early fifties, to begin the career she deserved for so long, world fame and undeniable recognition.