After D-Day, Hitler's situation deteriorated day by day. Despite this, his army was not yet defeated and during the Battle of Ardennes in France, there were terrible American losses. However, as the year progressed, Hitler's last hopes of victory diminished.

Narrated and directed by Liam Dale

This documentary revisits the intense 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, where over 800 civilians were held captive by an armed group.
Facing one of the most challenging rescue operations in modern history, Russia’s elite Spetsnaz Group Alfa devised a bold and high-risk strategy involving a top-secret method to neutralize the threat. The operation showcased precision and bravery, but the aftermath brought unexpected consequences, leading to widespread debate.
Through gripping accounts and strategic insights, the film explores the delicate balance between protecting lives and navigating extreme circumstances, highlighting the resilience and determination of those tasked with responding to such crises.

Narrated by Alisdair Simpson

Three generations of Amish make a rare decision to tell their stories after months of reflection and debate with their pastors. How can they live between an ancestral ideology and a civilization of consumption pushed to the extreme? This documentary raises questions about the notion of individual freedom, belonging to a minority, economic and social norms, as well as the place of women.

Director : Mélanie Van Der Ender

The giant cities that dominate the global economy have their roots in the glorious and turbulent histories of Amsterdam, London and New York. They each embodied a new urban concept that gave rise to radical and ambitious new city designs and technologies. This series recaps 400 years of ruthless competition that created myriad great minds and the amazing vibe that these great cities embody today.

0:00 Episode 1 - A Golden Century (1585-1656)
Starting in 1585 as the small city of Amsterdam, gradually became the first world city in human history. Watch the story of Amsterdam's ascension and growing dominance on world trade, and the spectacular innovations that made it possible. Across the Channel, London wasn't the challenger that it will soon become - but the City is growing and finds its destiny: commerce and finance.

53:03 Episode 2 - Clashes (1650-1800)
As Amsterdam is at its peak and becomes the third largest city in Europe, London gradually takes the lead, and a third player enters world history: New Amsterdam, once a Dutch city, is eventually conquered by England and becomes New York.

1:45:03 Episode 3 - Metropolis (1800-1880)
Watch how New York, just two decades after the war of independence, makes its way through and becomes the great challenger of London. During the 19th century, both cities will experience industrial revolution, modernity and the enormous challenge of migrations and mass poverty.

2:37:26 Episode 4 - Global Cities (1880-2017)
London and New York turn to gigantism and open the way to the city of tomorrow. New York invents the skyscraper and the skyline, new concepts that will revolutionize urbanism and shape the cities around the world. London, the heart of the British Empire and the wealthiest city on earth, faces pollution, with its deadly consequences, and cannot overcome its huge poverty problem.

Sanaa, in Yemen: this city is cut off from the world. In the last years, a terrible war has rendered it isolated. Millions of inhabitants are living under an embargo, in one of the most inaccessible places on the planet.

Directors: Nicolas Jaillard & Guillaume Dasquié

In the extreme north-west of Nepal, the Limi valley is hidden behind a series of peaks exceeding 6000 m altitude. During the winter, she finds herself cut off from the world. To deliver vaccines and medicines, a handful of men and women embark on an adventure lasting several days. The team alternates walking and traveling in 4/4. But, mule caravans prove to be a much more reliable means of transportation than all-terrain vehicles. The western regions are the most isolated in the country. Crossing the slopes is, each time, a dance with death. Nagendra launches his truck to the edge of the abyss, ready to take any risk to deliver on time and support his family.
Directors: Philippe LAFAIX; Frédéric ELHORGA

In the south of the Philippines, on the island of Mindanao, modernity has not yet taken over completely. In the heart of Bukidnon province, the rice harvesting cycles dictate the pace of life. After each harvest, the small village of Kalabugao, perched on the mountain, hands over its precious cargo to drivers and brokers responsible for selling it at the market. The 70-kilometer journey to the market, usually a 6-hour trip, can extend over several days during the rainy season due to mudslides and landslides. Time is of the essence for rice delivery because every hour of delay increases the risk of the rice spoiling. Further south, in the Compostela Valley, peculiar trucks named "Saddam," after the former Iraqi dictator, make their daily rounds. Their task is to serve the isolated gold mines, carrying bags of precious stones extracted at great risk by the miners.

Only 1 in 8 recruits will pass the Foreign Legion selection policy

Amid the Cold War's tense backdrop, Berlin becomes the epicenter of an invisible battle between the CIA and the KGB. Spanning decades, this clandestine conflict pits the two superpowers against each other in a high-stakes game of espionage.
From daring missions like the Berlin Tunnel project to double agents like George Blake, the story reveals the covert maneuvers, betrayals, and psychological warfare that defined the era.
As agents on both sides navigate ideological divides and personal sacrifices, the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signifies not just the end of an era, but the triumph of diplomacy over secrecy and division.

Director: David Muntaner

Over the course of 3,000 years, more than 300 pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, most leaving behind well-documented evidence of their existence. But one group of pharaohs - those from the period known as the Old Kingdom - have left nary an archaeological trace of their rule. Now, follow world-renowned Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev as he tries to track down evidence of the most mysterious of these lost kings of Egypt: the pharaoh Pepy

He had made the French capitulate, brought Europe to its knees and launched the largest extermination operation in history by deporting millions of Jews. Adolf Hitler was willing to do anything to achieve his dreams of domination. To stop the dictator, the British forces, the French resistance fighters or the German opponents imagined numerous scenarios aimed at assassinating him. However, each attempt proved to be a failure. One of the most emblematic is that planned by a German officer Claus Schenk Von Stauffenberg during the plot of July 20, 1944 at the Wolfsschanze, the Führer's headquarters located in East Prussia. But the attempt only hurt him and resulted in a radical reduction in his public appearances. On a daily basis, Hitler was too well protected and his closest lieutenants were constantly on guard.

Director : GUILAIN DEPARDIEU

It was the end of one of the most heartbreaking events in recent times. 82 Nigerian schoolgirls were released after 3 years of imprisonment in exchange for 5 terrorist leaders. These leaders belong to Boko Haram, the most bloodthirsty terrorist group on the planet. To understand who these terrorists are, how they operate, we meet former prisoners, repented jihadists and troops on the front-line.

Director : Patrick Forestier

This is the real story of the legendary Raid on Entebbe. On 27th June 1976 terrorists hi-jacked Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. On board are 246 passengers, most of them Jews. They are taken to Entebbe, Uganda and are held hostage in the airport terminal.
Even though Uganda is thousands of miles away, across hostile territory, Israel's defence minister, Shimon Peres decides to launch a rescue mission. It is a job for Sayeret Matkal, the most elite unit in the Israeli Defence Force.
Featuring interviews with surviving hostages, members of Sayeret Matkal and Peres himself this is the inside story of the most remarkable special forces mission of them all.

Will the Islamic Republic of Iran succeed in obtaining the nuclear bomb? For fifteen years secret networks have been busy helping Iran build its bomb. In Pakistan and Switzerland, channels have been set up to deliver the necessary material. Secret services in the US and Israel are doing everything possible to stop it: infiltrating informants, assassinating scientists, and sabotaging nuclear sites.

The serene Bavarian mountain of Obersalzberg became the heart of Adolf Hitler’s private retreat and a symbol of Nazi power. From the construction of the Berghof, his expansive residence, to the infamous Eagle's Nest atop the Kehlstein peak, this quiet alpine sanctuary transformed into a heavily fortified political hub.
Beneath its picturesque surface lay sprawling bunkers and secret tunnels, while its surroundings witnessed pivotal decisions of the Third Reich.
Through survivor testimonies, field studies, and historical archives, this documentary unveils how a tranquil landscape was reshaped into a bastion of tyranny—and the lingering traces of its dark legacy, 70 years later.

Original Title: Hitler's Mountain
Directed by Isabelle Foucrier and Thibaut Martin

00:00 There are two worlds in Bolivia. That of the Altiplano, the highlands, perched at an altitude of more than 4000 meters. And that of the Amazon basin, which tops out at a few hundred meters above sea level. Between the two, there is a transition region, made of vertiginous precipices and trails that descend the Andean Cordillera in a few tens of kilometers. . It is the region of the Yungas, a country where the horizontal does not exist. In these valleys winds a road, the only means of communication between La Paz, the administrative capital of the country, perched on the Altiplano, and the riches of the Amazon basin. The Bolivians nicknamed it "el camino de la muerte", the road to death. Highest point: the La Cumbre pass, 4700 meters, at the exit of La Paz. 78 kilometers further, we are barely 900 meters. Along this road of the impossible, we follow the story of a community of cocaleros, coca growers clinging to the slopes of the mountain. To carry their loads to the road, they stretched makeshift cables made of simple iron wires across the valley. An infernal zip line, nearly 400 meters long, 200 meters above the ground. We also share the daily life of a vachero, a truck driver who transports cows from the Amazon basin to La Paz, the highest metropolis in the world. 25 hours of journey on the road to death, done without stopping. Because you have to go very quickly: if a cow dies, the driver pays.
4:30 Villagers found an outstanding way to travel faster
9:00 Sky cables synonym of death
20:24 A 1000000 km truck that could break at any time
32:09 One slip on the 3m beam and it's a 500m Drop
43:19 Coca, ingredient in strong medicin getting sold in daylight

Paraguay has long been isolated by a dictatorship that lasted nearly 35 years, the country is getting back to work, everywhere the economy is taking off, except in the Chaco. The region occupies half of the country and yet it has only one inhabitant per km2. The men try to find a place in the middle of this wild nature with its extreme climate, depending on the season the thermometer goes from zero to 50°. The roads that cross the Chaco are rarely maintained, getting from one point to another takes courage, especially during the winter rains. We followed one of the few drivers to venture there? it is for this reason that the locals nicknamed it Michelin. They call me that because they are tires that resist everything. At 67 he does not receive any pension, so he continues to play transporters in his old van. Despite this inhospitable climate, strange colonies of men and women settle there, under their hands the forest disappears giving way to immense fields. Mennonites dedicate their lives to god and reject any form of modern society? Their dress code dates back to the 18th century and only travel by horse-drawn carriage? These Protestant Christians from Germany and even Alsace are mostly blond with blue eyes and only marry among themselves? The Chaco is also the reign of resourcefulness, you can come across a machine that seems straight out of the movie Mad Max. A vehicle unique in the world, half bus, half truck!

00:00 Living in the Chaco
00:51 🌊 Living in the Chaco region of Paraguay is a daily struggle due to dangerous wildlife, extreme weather and challenging work.
13:22 🌍 The Mennonite community in Paraguay lives a simple and isolated life, with strict religious and cultural practices.
32:12 🐄 Cowboys in the Chaco region care for thousands of animals, facing challenges such as parasites and a limited diet.

Directors: Daniel Lainé, Mathieu Orcel

Beneath the surface of the ocean exists an incredibly hostile world - an icy world immersed in eternal darkness where the pressure is phenomenal. This world is the abyssal domain - the largest habitat on our planet.
Yet, some air-breathing, young-feeding marine mammals, like us, spend much of their time in this dark world. Scientists are now discovering that the depths reached by these ocean giants are much greater than previously thought.

Using transmitter beacons worn by the animals, abyssal cameras and 3D scan images, this film accompanies and illustrates a contemporary scientific revolution. Constructed according to a dramatic progression towards the abyss - from the shallowest to the deepest dive - it brings to the forefront the often unknown animals and their remarkable physiological adaptations to the pressures of the great depths.
Director: Bertrand Loyer