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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.

A fictional documentary on Notre Dame de Paris, produced in 2019.

This film is an uncompromising portrait of a woman who no-one could have imagined in a position of power a few years ago . A look at the woman and, through her, at the party that continuously raises concerns and stirs up the media.

Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.

On 20 October 1983, the GIGN discovered a woman in Saint-Flour (Auvergne) who had been confined for nearly four decades: Esther Albouy. Her head had been shaved at the Liberation for alleged acts of collaboration, and she is said to have been locked away by her own family. It was thus that the young woman is said to have gone mad, dragging her brothers into her delusions and turning this secluded existence into a nightmare.

Beginning with Guernica and the Chinese cities of Chongqing and Shanghai in 1937 and ending with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, World War Two saw a new art of warfare in the form of extensive, worldwide bombing campaigns.

From the first curative sea baths to “Paris plage” to overcrowded shores and from beach pajamas to monokinis, how the invention of the seaside has transformed our customs, our imaginations and landscapes to the point of importing sand into our cities (with "Paris Plage").

This journey through time retraces fourteen centuries of a rich shared history between Jews and Muslims. A story of great historical rigor, without concessions or bias, driven by fluid and inspired realization.