Historical

During the Second World War, many French railway workers took part in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the French railway network took many actions against Nazi occupation. A station manager, Camargue, and his deputy, Athos, risk their lives in managing the network in their sector.

Forty years after "Farrebique", Georges Rouquier returns to visit his cousins, who are farmers in Aveyron. In the 1940s, he filmed their day-to-day lives. Since then, everything has changed: farming has become an industry, you have to expand and diversify to survive or die.

Pioneer in the study of radioactivity, the physicist and chemist of Polish origin Marie Sk?odowska-Curie worked hand-in-hand with her husband Pierre to further scientific research. But in this overwhelmingly masculine and conservative environment she had to fight to make a place for herself...

Occupied France, on the walls a red poster draws public attention to a group of foreign resistance fighters, mostly communists, lead by the Armenian Missak Manouchian. Arrested, they are executed by the Nazis in 1944. Thirty years later, a theatre company pays tribute to them.