Follow journalist Alexandra Alevêque and meet people living in the coldest, warmest, highest, most humid, and most densely populated cities in the world. Alexandra will experience life in these extreme cities and live in each one long enough to learn about the locals' way of life and gain insight into humankind's incredible capacity to adapt and find solutions to survive.
Gil Alma and Benoît Joubert, two friends who are actors and comedians, set themselves a strange eco-friendly challenge: to set off to explore a region with 25 kilos of stones on their backs and to manage to empty their bag in 3 days.
On 17 October 79 AD, the city of Pompeii was buried under lava after the sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Today, the mythical site has yet to reveal all its secrets. A new excavation campaign is being conducted, the most significant in 70 years and one of the major archaeological investigations of the twenty-first century. The film unveils the sumptuous frescoes and mosaics that adorned the excavated villas and uses historical reconstructions in natural settings to show, hour by hour, how the city and its inhabitants were buried under a mantle of ash.
Henning Franzmeier and his team of archaeologists undertake excavations in Pi-Ramses, hoping to discover the truth about the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II's lost city.