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2021
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Complicated borders, disputed land, strange status... sometimes the way the planet is shared verges on the absurd! Discover ten geographical oddities that illustrate the often grotesque character of international power games.
History and society | History
Episode 1
10 min
Mont Blanc
Who owns the summit? Did you know that the highest mountain in the Alps is French for the French, but Italian for the Italians? An argument that has been going on since 1860!
Episode 2
10 min
Baarle
The perfect village for a little spot of smuggling. If a murder has been committed, who are you going to call? A surveyor! The strange but true situation of what happened in the village of Baarle, Belgium.
Episode 3
10 min
Llivia
The battle of the stop sign. In the 1970s Llivia, a small Spanish village situated within France, saw a veritable battle waged over its road signs. A violation of its freedom!
Episode 4
10 min
Sark
Appropriating an archipelago. Did you know that the Middle Ages are still alive and well, just a few kilometres off the French coast? A "seigneur" and his vassals live a peaceful life on the island of Sark.
Episode 5
10 min
Mount Athos
Monastic battleground. Can a state prohibit women entering its territory? Particularly when it happens to be part of the European Union? That's the unusual case of the monastic community of Mount Athos, an autonomous republic...
Complicated borders, disputed land, strange status... sometimes the way the planet is shared verges on the absurd! Discover ten geographical oddities that illustrate the often grotesque character of international power games.
2024. Act Up-Paris is 35 years old. Throughout its history, the militant association fighting against AIDS has invented a radical way of campaigning, bringing HIV-positive people and the gay community out of invisibility, forcing public authorities to react... A story of a journey that is both terrible and magnificent.
Kobeliaki, halfway between Kiev and the Donbass. Iryna has no news from her son, captured by the Russians in Mariupol. What happened to Olexandr Sergeyvich? Many mothers and wives are asking the same concerned question about their family members. An offbeat portrait of a suffering country.
From Detroit to Manchester and on to Boston, innumerable American towns, streets and rivers carry francophone names. Why? The rapper Biz and globe-trotter Jean-Michel Dufaux set off in the footsteps of those who travelled and dreamed of America in times gone by. The story of a history forgotten or erased.
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.
Wherever man is found, members of the crow family are nearby, watching. Since time immemorial, they have followed the hunters, farmers, soldiers and persecutors, scratching the soil in gardens, ploughed fields, battlefields... Crows and their cousins study us, passing on the knowledge gleaned to their offspring. Chronicle of an inquisition.
6 May 1994, Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais. The meeting between Queen Elizabeth II and President François Mitterrand puts the final touch to the most important civil engineering project of the 20th century. We look back at an international technological exploit and an exceptional adventure for the workers involved.
Struck by a fire on 15 April 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will reopen on 7 December 2024. For five years, the religious building has been the centre stage of an unparalleled human and technical adventure. We dive into the heart of this enormous restoration site, alongside exceptionally skilled tradesmen.
The Indian Taïno people, who are almost extinct, leave a culture full of legends, sculptures and beliefs, but also a way of living, in harmony with nature, and values of sharing and solidarity. So many aspirations that appeal to certain contemporary young people. Story of a rediscovery.
