This series explores the history of drug trafficking from a political perspective and reveals the murky role played by many states which have used the drug trade as an instrument of power. Opium, heroin, cocaine, and designer drugs have sparked wars, financed militias, and brought down states.
Relentless sheriffs, trigger-happy gunslingers, steadfast saloon owners and cocky cowboys are all found in the "Lucky Luke" albums, which have influenced entire generations of comic readers. For the three-part series "In the footsteps of Lucky Luke", the French comic author Jul traveled to the USA to trace the role models of the familiar comic characters.
An enthralling, visually spectacular journey of Oman’s natural world, with unprecedented access to rare creatures and never-seen-before animal behaviours.
What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.
The Odyssey of Klassik by Kéké Flipnote is a animated series of 12 episodes featuring the eponymous jerboa, Klassik. In this silent retelling of classic Greco-Roman mythology, Klassik survives by the skin of his tail against foes like the mighty bear Cyclops or the fearsome mole Medusa. All this is accompanied by classical scores, from the likes of Brahams to Tchaikovsky, giving this Flipnote Studio-animated classic a style which is uniquely its own.
Secrets to Civilisation is a groundbreaking History series which explores the recent explosion in data about our planet's past, offering a completely fresh perspective on the ancient world from the Bronze Age to the fall of Rome.
A five-part series that features the latest research exploring how early humans evolved. See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to survive and thrive around the globe. Archaeology, genetics and anthropology cast new light on 200,000 years of history, detailing how early humans became dominant.
Emma loves her boyfriend Leo, but she is also attracted to a woman. With Leo's buddy Waël and his girlfriend Esther, the world still seems all right - but somehow also a bit boring. - In this refreshingly funny series Thomas Cadène and Joseph Safieddine, two young couples break out of their comfort zone in search of new sexual experiences.
The history of the European peasantry, which has undergone many upheavals over the centuries: from its rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the oppression of the nobility and the Church, to the struggles for freedom and modernization in the present era.