History and society Archives
Éthique helvétique
2023
What shaped Swiss thought? By analysing the history of the country, Tristan Miquel and Julien Girardin question the ethical and philosophical challenges facing their society and draw up parallels between the past and the present to stimulate reflection on different schools of thought.
Episode 5
27 min
Internements administratifs : quand la Suisse traquait les pauvres
C'est assurément l'un des plus gros scandales du siècle dernier en Suisse : les internements administratifs ou mesures de coercition à des fins d'assistance. Jusqu'en 1981, des hommes, des femmes et des adolescents ont été internés et contraints au travail forcé.
Episode 4
24 min
Pourquoi la Suisse est le pays du bien ?
Les Suisses ne font la guerre à personne, sont neutres et, mieux encore, viennent en aide grâce à leurs nombreuses oeuvres humanitaires. La plus connue et la plus ancienne est le CICR, le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge.
Episode 3
15 min
L'image de la misère à des fins humanitaires
Utiliser l'image de la misère des peuples pour appeler aux dons, la pratique n'est pas nouvelle. En Suisse, terre de l'ONU, du CICR et des ONG, ce marketing humanitaire tourne à plein régime.
Episode 2
24 min
Pourquoi l'armée suisse a-t-elle tué... des Suisses ?
La fusillade du 9 novembre 1932 a été un événement traumatisant pour de nombreux Suisses. Ce jour-là, à Genève, l'armée a tiré sur une foule de manifestants composée de socialistes et d'antifascistes.
Episode 1
18 min
Pourquoi les Genevois sont de gros bourgeois ?
Genève est connue pour ses banques, son horlogerie et sa place financière que le monde entier lui envie. Comment cet îlot de prospérité a-t-il pu se créer ?
What shaped Swiss thought? By analysing the history of the country, Tristan Miquel and Julien Girardin question the ethical and philosophical challenges facing their society and draw up parallels between the past and the present to stimulate reflection on different schools of thought.
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La Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) est une entreprise audiovisuelle de service public, appartenant au groupe média SSR (Société Suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision), qui propose des programmes sur quatre chaînes radio, deux chaînes tv et de nombreuses plateformes digitales.
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May 1969. Alain Tanner paints the portrait of Gérard Mollard, a wine waiter at Lausanne train station buffet: his work, this thoughts, his long hours on his feet, the hotplate and waiting too... Catering, a world in itself, which does not seem to have changed since the 19th century.
Wendy Pillonel's docu-drama follows the fate of the Brefin family. Two members of the family are searching for Mireille and Rosette, who disappeared in the 2004 tsunami. An opportunity to look back at their moments of hope and despair, the difficulty of grieving to continue to live. Firsthand experiences.
December 1944. They thought that the war was over because Belgium had been freed three months earlier. But the families in Ardennes saw the Germans return by surprise. We look back at a terrible battle, through accounts, sequences from the archives and interviews with historians.
Jonas Schneiter is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Télévision suisse romande. This is the opportunity to watch outstanding images and personalities again from French-speaking Swiss television from yesterday and today. On the programme: emblematic sequences, memories, laughter and emotion, under the eye of a new generation of viewers.
June 1955. One year after the battle of Dien Bien Phu, French captain Paul Belmont is sent back there to find the remains of dead soldiers. He identifies eight among thousands. A look back at his journey and a tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Indochina war.
A century ago, Paris hosted the Olympic Games. Set in the unique social, cultural and political context shortly after WWI there were two notable absences: Germany and Russia. A look back at the Games, that saw the consecration of Paavo Nurmi, the "Flying Finn", and the American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller.
