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A clip in the Science Please! collection, Operation Lever uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how a lever increases force.

What do X-rays, microwaves and light have in common? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

What makes a fridge cool? A clip from the Science Please! collection.

What lights your fire? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

A minute of science, please. is a delightful collection of small one-minute films each explaining, using animation, archival images, and an often humorous narrative, various phenomena and scientific discoveries.

Edison's bright idea, or how the electric light bulb works?

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Magnets uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain: North Pole, South Pole... what's the big attraction?

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.

Four strokes of genius.

What keeps us down to earth? This clip from Science Please! answers the question.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel.

After her death, Gabrielle writes a poignant posthumous love letter to her grieving husband, Philippe, who is enduring the family ritual of the funeral alone.

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Sound Is Vibration uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain what is the sound.

What's the angle on mirrors?

In September 1986, two children were brutally killed in the suburbs of Metz. This is the beginning of "The Patrick Dils Affair", one of the most emblematic judicial errors in the annals of French justice.