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A history of camping and caravanning from their origins in British high society at the turn of the 20th century to their democratisation in later decades, taking in the hippy movement’s attachment to life on the road as well as high end glamping.

The History of a Passion

A history of  from its origins in British high society at the turn of the 20th century to the present day.

Camping and Caravanning

Current Highlights

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Classical music's biggest stars perform at the Salzburg Festival every year. The festival features renowned conductors including Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, and Teodor Currentzis, and world-class performers such as Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov and Elīna Garanča. Catch their unmissable performances every weekend in August from Friday to Sunday, on ARTE Concert.

Classical music's biggest stars perform at the Salzburg Festival throughout August.

Salzburg Festival 2021

Serial lover Don Giovanni is on a quest to conquer all women... In this near-live broadcast, Romeo Castellucci stages the most irreverent of Mozart’s operas in Salzburg’s Great Festival Hall.

Romeo Castellucci stages Mozart’s most irreverent opera. Live from the Salzburg Festival.

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Petra Haffter travels through California, the state where ideas are born and dreams made real.

Travelling through California, the US state where ideas are born and dreams made real.

California dreaming

Christian Thielemann conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a programme of late romantic works: Friedrich Rückert's poems set by Gustav Mahler and performed by Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, and Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.
 
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Gustav Mahler
5 Songs on poms by Friedrich Rückert-Lieder (1901–1902) :
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Liebst Du um Schönheit
Um Mitternacht
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
 
Anton Bruckner
Symphonie n°7 en mi majeur, WAB 107

Christian Thielemann conducts Bruckner and Mahler with Elīna Garanča as soloist.

Vienna Philharmonic - Thielemann

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in the worst place at the worst time twice over. On August 6, 1945, he was working in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb exploded over the city. Traumatised by the apocalyptic experience, he just wanted to go back home to his family. Except home was Nagasaki. 

The Lost Ones

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was traumatised by Hiroshima, and went back home as soon as he could. Except home was Nagasaki. 

Yamaguchi, Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Concorde was the epitome of elegance, speed and glamour, linking London and New York in little over three hours. The British-French airliner was in a class of its own. But on the 25th of July 2000 tragedy struck which meant the end of supersonic flight. A look back at the birth and demise of the king of the skies.

The fascinating story and tragic end of Concorde, the supersonic aircraft that was the dream of a generation.

Concorde: Myth and Tragedy

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. Having lost her husband, the mother makes the heart achingly painful decision to leave her homeland, in search of safety and a brighter future for her children. Filmed over three years, this film chronicles the family's journey from the front-line in Aleppo, to the little town of Goslar in Germany. Escaping the chaos and terror of their war torn homeland becomes a catalyst for a different kind of struggle; the struggle to understand your past and accept your present, to adapt to a new life, to hold on to hope, and the idea of belonging to a homeland.

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. 

Watani: My Homeland

Darío Aguirre is from Ecuador, living in Germany with his wife. When the city of Hamburg unexpectedly invited him to become a German citizen, Darío revisits his rocky path to building a life for himself in Europe and wonders about who he has become. This film is about arriving and living abroad in a time when xenophobia is suddenly acceptable again in Germany, and society is struggling to find the right way to integrate new citizens.

What it's like to live in Germany as a foreigner when xenophobia is suddenly socially acceptable again.

How I Became German

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping wants more than ever to bring the island of Taiwan back into the fold, just like Hong Kong. Can the burgeoning democracy on China’s doorstep, driven by digital technology, resist the Middle Kingdom’s advances?  

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping wants more than ever to bring the island of Taiwan back into the fold.

Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

For decades, the middle classes were what held post-war Europe together. Confidence in the Republic and its values was a given for the French middle classes who saw the state as a force for good and believed in social mobility. That all changed with the Yellow Vest movement (2018-2019) which saw angry protests against the government. This documentary follows participants in this movement.

For decades, the middle classes were what held post-war France together.  But that all changed with the Yellow Vest movement (2018-2019) which saw angry protests against the government. 

The Working Poor in Revolt

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

In France 173 people were killed by abusive partners in 2019.  84% of these victims were women. In the press and on social media the list of femicides grows longer every week and yet we know little about these women who have become statistics. This documentary focuses on domestic violence and femicide, a crisis going on behind closed doors.

This documentary focuses on domestic violence and femicide, a crisis going on behind closed doors.

To the Bitter End

A taboo subject until very recently, Canada’s Indian Residential Schools took away generations of indigenous children from their parents. In an attempt by Canada to educate and evangelise these people viewed as savages, indigenous people were brutally separated from their culture and often abused. A documentary on the traumatic experiences of Canada’s First Nations people and their fight for recognition and justice.

Canada’s Indian Residential Schools took away generations of indigenous children from their parents. A documentary on the traumatic experiences of First Nations people and their fight for justice.

Killing the Indian in the Child

On 4 January 2021, a London court denied the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States - where he faces up to 175 years in prison, accused of publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. But the judicial battle continues: the US government has appealed, while Assange remains in Belmarsh maximum security prison.
Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

The Extradition of Julian Assange

Forty years ago, aged just eight, Riley was repeatedly raped by his boy scout leader. When he complained, the leader was simply moved to another state where he continued to harm other children. He's just one of tens of thousands of people in the United States who say they suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their scout leaders, while the organisation itself turned a blind eye.

Forty years ago, aged just eight, Riley was repeatedly raped by his boy scout leader

USA: The Boy Scout Paedophile Scandal

Our web-series explores the lives of women in Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. We ask how the Arab Spring changed their societies and their roles.

Ten years on from the Arab Spring, Arab women reflect on how their lives have changed

Women of the Arab Spring

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

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Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.
Maurice Joyeux, from the Jesuit Refugee Service, and his friend Mortaza Behboudi chose this very moment to return to Lesbos, to find the forgotten people of the pandemic, surviving in this squalid and unsanitary camp.

Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.

Greece: Moria - A Living Hell

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in the last 20 years. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of young people deciding to return home. Brexit is also fuelling the trend: a third of the Latvian diaspora currently still live in Great Britain. But after a shrinking population for so long, is it too late to turn the tide?

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in recent decades. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of people returning home

Latvia: Brain Drain

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets by their families. There, they desperately try to earn enough to live by going through rubbish dumps. They are easy targets for predators, and sexual abuse is an every day occurrence.

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets, where they are easy targets for predators

Nigeria: The Plight of the Witch Children

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world. They rely on the mountains for their survival, drinking mountain water and eating fruits that grow in the area, while their cattle graze on the abundant grass.

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world

Sudan: The Last Rebels of Darfur

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back potential asylum seekers towards Turkish waters. That's despite the fact that once in Europe, these people have a right to apply for asylum and to have that application processed. But while this tactic is against EU human rights law, the Greek government have a promise to keep to its electorate: reducing the flow of migrants.

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

The Cabo Delgado region, in north-eastern Mozambique, has been struggling for the past 4 years. Al-Shabab jihadists, affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019, are wreaking havoc there. The number of violent attacks perpetrated tripled throughout 2020 compared to the previous year and many people fear for the future. 

In north-eastern Mozambique, Al-Shabab is terrorising locals

Mozambique: Escape From Al-Shabab

As infection rates reduce across the continent and more people get vaccinated, homeless and migrants remain amongst the most vulnerable in the pandemic.

Europe: Homeless in Covid Times

Twenty years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. But without them, Afghan security forces fear they'll struggle to contain the advance of the insurgents. Terror attacks are on the rise, and the group is said to already control nearly half the country. The return to power of the fundamentalists seems inevitable.

The last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan, leading to fears of a Taliban resurgence

Afghanistan: The Land of the Taliban

Falmata had a price on her head from Boko Haram because she was a businesswoman. She barely survived and lost everything. As for Mala, he survived a recent massacre of farmers - but has not dared to go out to the fields since.
The city of Bama in northern Nigeria, liberated seven months ago, is just beginning to recover after being the centre of a Boko Haram caliphate.

The city of Bama in northern Nigeria, liberated seven months ago, is just beginning to recover after being the centre of a Boko Haram caliphate.

Nigeria: Surviving Boko Haram

Israel is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since the second Intifada in the 2000s. The unrest has spread throughout the country from Jerusalem. Whilst Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of the Gaza Strip, has launched hundreds of rockets towards Israeli cities, Israel has bombed Gaza.

Israel is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since the second Intifada in the 2000s.

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille in northern France have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Hope for an Anti-COVID Drug

At just nine years old, Daniel spends his days picking coca leaves on his family’s farm. In this remote part of Colombia, growing drugs is the only way to make a living. But the state is cracking down on crack, and has started dropping crop killer from the skies. But it hurts the farmers the most, while armed drug traffickers continue to control the region.

At just nine years old, Daniel spends his days picking coca leaves on his family’s farm

Colombia: The Peasants' Revolt

The camel patrol scour the desert for terrorists. The Mauritanian army camels have a strategic advantage over off-road vehicles: they don't make noise like jeeps and, above all, they don't stir up dust that could be seen for miles by jihadists. The camel unit helps protect people and solar power projects based in this arid land, to make Mauritania safer for all.

The camel patrol scour the desert for terrorists

Mauritania: Meharists of the Desert

The kolbars, literally in Kurdish "those who carry on their backs", risk their lives crossing the border into Iran, smuggling in illegal TVs and other products. It's a dangerous job; they risk dying of cold, stepping on a mine, or being shot at by border guards. In 2020, 61 kolbars were killed, while 181 others were injured, maimed or tortured.

Smugglers in Iraq who traffick TVs and other products into Iran risk death, prison, and torture

Iraq: The Forbidden Frontier

India is suffocating to death. Relatives rush from hospital to hospital searching fruitlessly for help as their loved ones die from Covid-19. Some hospitals are so desperate for oxygen they've sued the government. A look at the frontline of the country's devastating oxygen shortage.

Imagine being told that your loved one only has five minutes of oxygen left, and all you can do is watch the minutes tick by

India: Drowned by the Second Wave

It's been three months since Myanmar's coup and the army's subsequent bloody crackdown. The bravery of individual protesters it appears is no match for the junta's war machine. But even as those killed, injured or arrested now number in their thousands, the undercurrent of civil disobedience still runs strong. 

It's been three months since Myanmar's coup and the army's subsequent bloody crackdown

Myanmar: The Death Throes of Democracy

During the migrant crisis of 2015, Sweden stepped up to the plate and welcomed 162,877 asylum seekers. Among them, 24,000 were unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan. The numbers overwhelmed immigration authorities who were unable to process their applications before they reached adulthood. But the moment they turn eighteen, their chances of getting asylum drops dramatically.

Afghan asylum seekers who arrived to Sweden as children are now being told that that they have to go back to Afghanistan

Sweden: Migrants at Point Zero

On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, professor of history at the Conflans Sainte-Honorine college, was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet in class. His murderer was a young Chechen born in Russia, who had been granted refugee status in France through his parents. In Russia, the murder provoked widespread sympathy.

Many Muslims live in Russia, but Russia has an uneasy relationship with Islam

Russia and Islam

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Lena is a 17-year-old girl from a middle-class family who is experiencing her first love: secret night adventures and magical morning walks along the Danube. However, her dream world is shattered when she is raped.

A Film by Tereza Nvotová

Feature film. Lena is a 17-year-old girl struggling with her first love. But her dream is about to be shattered.

Filthy

In 1974, the French erotic film Emmanuelle broke audience records: almost 350 million viewers worldwide and a twelve-year run on the Champs Elysées in Paris. After the success of the sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris, Emmanuelle appeared at a turning point in French society: The sexual emancipation following May '68 in France. 

Queen of French Erotic Cinema

In 1974, the French erotic film Emmanuelle broke audience records: almost 350 million viewers worldwide and a twelve-year run on the Champs Elysées in Paris

Emmanuelle

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped him as he steers China towards world domination.

A philosopher of complexity, a sociologist of cultural practices and one of the first to address ecological issues, Edgar Morin has been a major intellectual figure in France from the post-war period up to the present day. Through extensive archive footage, this documentary, coming in the year of the philosopher's 100th birthday, tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought .

Celebrating the philosopher's 100th birthday, this documentary tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought.

Edgar Morin - Journal of a Life

In a subtly handled documentary, filmmaker Stéphanie Pillonca shows the lives of disabled and able-bodied people who come together for a special dance class. Participants lives are transformed by the power of dancing together, and of falling in love.

In a subtly handled documentary, filmmaker Stéphanie Pillonca shows the lives of disabled and able-bodied people who come together for a special dance class. 

Let Me Love

In Japan the television screen, the computer or the smartphone are gateways between our world and the spirit world. Tokyo Paranormal takes us through the emblematic figures of the Japanese supernatural world and the places that terrify contemporary Japan.

In Japan the television, the computer or the smartphone are gateways between our world and the spirit world.

Tokyo Paranormal

The 20th century will be remembered for a scientific break-through of untold significance: splitting the atom marked the dawn of the nuclear age. Kenichi Watanabe’s documentary focuses on the real impact of the darker side of nuclear power: the accidents exposing people to radiation from Chernobyl to Fukushima, the full extent of which were often covered up.

Centenary of the Nuclear Age

The 20th century will be remembered for a scientific break-through of untold significance. Splitting the atom marked the dawn of the nuclear age. 

100 Years of the Atom

Women are twenty-seven times more likely than men to be harassed on social media. This shocking finding, published by the European Women's Lobby in 2017, suggests that cyber-violence against women is not a series of isolated acts, but a systemic scourge. Sociological studies have shown that it is mostly committed by men who, contrary to popular belief, belong to more privileged socio-economic groups. Feeling protected by the virtual nature of their actions, the perpetrators are organised and sometimes carry out "digital raids", or harassment in packs, with terrible consequences, both personal and professional, for their victims.
 
This documentary focuses on women’s testimony from all walks of life who have been victim of online abuse and examines the harm this phenomenon does to them and to democratic debate.

Online Abuse Against Women

This documentary focuses on women’s testimony from all walks of life who have been victim of online abuse and examines the harm this phenomenon does to them and to democratic debate.

#FatUglySlut

From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021

Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities of the Aix-en-Provence opera festival.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

In France, the bungalow evokes holidays in the sun. In the UK, they are humble everyday dwellings for grandparents. But in Germany or the United States, they take on a very different form: they are a bourgeois luxury, a single-storey villa with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking nature. Inspired by the "bangalo", a traditional one-storey Bengal house open to the outside, this style was also a staple of colonial architecture. 

In the US and Germany, bungalows are a bourgeois luxury

Bungalow

Both sacred and secular music were omnipresent in the Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilisations of the classical world. But the songs, rhythms and melodies have been forgotten. What might have the music of antiquity sounded like? This film follows the musicologists and researchers who painstakingly piece together clues to build a picture of the music performed and enjoyed thousands of years ago. Through their work, musical instruments come back to life and surviving scores are deciphered to give a glimpse of a sound world thought to have disappeared forever.

This film follows the musicologists and researchers who painstakingly piece together clues to build a picture of the music performed and enjoyed thousands of years ago.

In Search of the Music of Ancient Times

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The Summer of Voices celebrates the great voices of pop and pays homage to the power of the human voice

Summer Of Voices

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The pole vault is a discipline is based on the transformation of kinetic energy into elastic energy and then into gravitational energy. Athletes must play with energy, optimise it, transform it, and conserve it.

The Strongest of Them All

Athletes must play with energy, optimise it, transform it, and conserve it

Pole Vaulting: Overcoming Gravity

Since antiquity, scientists have tracked down the principles behind the movements of moving things, from planets to athletes. Running champions make sure of basic principles of physics developed by Newton to improve their performance. We take a look at the maths behind the movement. 

The Mechanics of Strength

Since antiquity, scientists have tracked down the principles behind the movements of moving things, from planets to athletes

Sprinting and Newton's Law

If you spin a top, it will continue to rotate on its own for a while. Physicists found the explanation for this phenomenon: inside angular momentum. In sport it is used by trampoliners. They are true masters of the art of turning and can perform up to 50 spins in 20 seconds.

Trampoliners can spin up to 50 times in the space of just 20 seconds

The Trampoline and Kinetic Energy

Have you ever seen a windsurfer who slices through the waves with the help of the breeze, as if flying over water? That's all thanks to the centreboard, and a physical concept: lift. The same force that makes planes fly and propels javelins over long distances.

Windsurfing and Lift

Athletes can excel by better understanding the physical laws affecting them

Physics Gets Physical

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Millions of people worldwide suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), an extreme and persistent exhaustion for which there is no cure. An investigation into a little known illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

ME/CFS A Misunderstood Illness

 An investigation into little understood illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic anxiety, depression and addiction: How can we prevent the Covid-19 pandemic from creating a mental health epidemic?

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The Mental Health Pandemic

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. We cultivate the language of touch from birth and it is essential for the development of our body and minds. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

The Power of Touch

 French swimmer Florent Manaudou, German pentathlete Marvin Dogue and French sabre fencer Cécilia Berder all trained hard for the Tokyo Olympics, but the most important part of their training they say is in the mind. Mental conditioning is a growing science designed to get the best out of sports champions at a time when they could crumble under the pressure. At the beginning of World War Two, American airforce pilots struggled to face off against the Japanese fleet. Cue Bud Winter: in peace time, a sports coach, and in war, a mental conditioner who taught the pilots how to keep their head in the game even in life-or-death situations. Gradually, the idea that sportsmen and women were as much mind as they were muscle took hold. 

 For Olympic French swimmer Florent Manaudou, his greatest challenge is mental, not physical

Inside the Heads of Champions

Fasciae, hidden connective tissues, are largely unstudied parts of our anatomy. What role do they play in the organism? And could a better understanding of them help in finding a cure for back pain?

The Hidden World Under Our Skin

Fasciae, hidden connective tissues are largely unstudied. What role do they play in the human body?