Marie Curie

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.

Early 1960s: the Algerian war stretches on. Salah, Kaddour and other destitute young Algerians join the French army as 'Harkis'. When Algerian independence becomes a probability, things get difficult for the 'Harkis'. Considered as traitors by their compatriots, some hope to obtain asylum in France.

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.

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.

Following a bet, Simon has no choice but to take part in the Morat-Fribourg race. The preparation followed by the race itself, have the effect of revealing painful memories, buried for far too long..

1553. Theologian and physician, Michel Servet is accused of heresy by Calvin after the publication of a controversial work. Arrested in Geneva, he is condemned to being burnt at the stake and is executed on 28 October.

A journey to rural Quebec in the late 19th century against a backdrop of challenges posed by the colonisation of this faraway land, collusion between the church and politicians and the difficult living conditions of the day.