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In a Syria ravaged by more than a decade of war, the oil sector has been hard hit. With many large refineries destroyed, supply is met by small makeshift refineries which employ refugee children in terrible conditions and also pollute the environment.

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In a Syria ravaged by more than a decade of war, small makeshift refineries employ refugee children in terrible conditions.

Syria: Child Workers in the Oil Industry

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This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it. 40 years ago an HIV infection seemed like a death sentence. When the first patients fell ill with high fever, pneumonia and fungal infections in the early 1980s, doctors were at a loss. Most of those affected were gay men, but the cause of the mystery illness escaped them.
After much protests and medical advancements, the stigma of HIV has lessened but the virus is still with us.

Silence = Death

This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it.

40 Years of AIDS

A region of Europe with a shared experience of communism and USSR dominance, Eastern Europe today is characterised by nations with diverse cultural and political identities.

Mapping the World

How many Eastern Europes?

A desert is growing in the southwest Romanian region of Oltenia. Extreme heat and drought are making it bigger every year with sandstorms reaching Bucharest. But a group of ecologists are trying to keep it at bay by replanting trees in the region.

Climate Change in Romania

A desert is growing in the southwest Romanian region of Oltenia. But a group of ecologists are trying to keep it at bay by replanting trees in the region.

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To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. But where is the space for a Palestinian state?

Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 

Israel: Making (In)Roads into the West Bank

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Casey, the new flatmate, was everything Alessandro was not. He was energetic, adventurous and charismatic. Alessandro started to document this strange creature with his video camera, so different from himself. They were in their early twenties and living in Rome...every experience together felt new and exciting. But when Casey moved to the Middle East to work as a TV journalist, Alessandro's world was opened up even more.
Drawn from 15 years of footage, The Things We Keep is an intimate look at friendship, a celebration of people's common humanity and an invitation to break out of one’s comfort zone.

Drawn from 15 years of footage, The Things We Keep is an intimate look at friendship and an invitation to break out of one’s comfort zone.

The Things We Keep

In the spring of 1890, at the height of his fame, the illustrious composer Camille Saint-Saëns left Paris and disappeared into the ether. Public opinion was stunned, reporters went looking for him, and rumours circulated about a possible suicide. The story of his disappearance was all over the headlines. Saint-Saëns often used pseudonyms when travelling in order to be left in peace as the most famous French composer of his era.
A child prodigy, an expert organist and pianist, a feared polemicist, a passionate world traveller, but also a poet and journalist, Camille Saint-Saëns fascinated and intrigued his contemporaries. But this Parisian, who died in Algiers just one hundred years ago, was above all the prolific composer of more than 600 works, successfully tackling all genres: religious music, chamber music, symphony and opera... From his lyrical work Samson et Dalila to the much loved Carnival of the Animals, from La danse macabre to the Symphony No. 3, Saint-Saëns never hesitated to defy the musical conventions of his time. This documentary reveals the life and personality of this free and elusive spirit who continues to be celebrated to this day.

Exploring the life and personality of one of France’s most celebrated and original composers.

Saint-Saëns - The Unfathomable

Completing several tasks at once or multitasking seems normal in our busy lives today. But can our brains really do more than one thing at a time? And what does the attempts to multitask mean for our wellbeing? A look at the latest scientific research.

Completing several tasks at once or multitasking seems normal in our busy lives today. But can our brains really do more than one thing at a time?

Multitasking

The greatest turning points in history often came down to one seemingly insignificant event. This series asks: but what if it never happened?

History at a Crossroads

Turning Points

Narrated by Cillian Murphy, this is the remarkable story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) which resulted in the formation of the Irish Free State and became the model for other British colonies to gain their independence.
Following on from the failed insurrection of 1916, this documentary tells the story of how revolutionary Ireland reorganised and rebuilt a movement which would eventually lead to an independent Ireland.  Hugely important figures such as Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera would emerge onto the world stage, as leaders of Ireland’s revolutionary struggle, facing iconic British political heavyweights such as Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George.

Narrated by Cillian Murphy, this is the remarkable story of how Ireland gained independence.

The Irish Revolution

Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia ranks among the most popular and most successful works in the entire operatic canon. For his new staging of the work at the Vienna State Opera the director, actor and media artist Herbert Fritsch has assembled a star-studded cast that includes Juan Diego Flórez in the role of Count Almaviva, Ildar Abdrazakov as Don Basilio, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya as Rosina and Étienne Dupuis as Figaro.

From the Vienna State Opera

Director Herbert Fritsch assembles a star-studded cast for his new staging of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. 

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

24 short films by 24 female writers, performed by 24 women actors, all based on women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment and violence. A diversity of female voices and talent from across Europe come together for a series that tackles head on the everyday brutality experienced by women. Conceived by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urrea.

24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

24 short films inspired by women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment, abuse and violence in everyday life.

At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, "Satoshi Nakamoto" put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator.

The Story of Bitcoin

The exciting story of the cryptocurrency from the perspective of its secretive creator.

Satoshi

Narrated by Liam Neeson. 175 years ago Europe was struck by a devastating famine. The food crisis was triggered when a deadly fungus escaped from South America and destroyed the potato crops. 100,000 people died of starvation and disease in France, Belgium, Holland, Scotland and the Kingdom of Prussia.
 In Ireland, where half the population relied on the potato as their main source of food, the impact was even more extreme. One million people died and between 1845 and 1855, two million emigrated. Today Ireland is the only country in the western world with a population lower than it had in the 1840s. The famine had broader repercussions. It caused the fall of the British government led by Robert Peel in 1846, was a catalyst for the revolutions that rocked Europe in 1848 and became the root for the global Irish Diaspora that today numbers 70,000,000 across the world.
 

The story of Ireland’s devastating famine where one million died and two million emigrated.

The Great Hunger

The supermarket chains used to seem unbeatable, capturing the lion’s share of the grocery market. But for some years now they have been in crisis. In the wake of a fierce price war, retailers are resorting to increasingly aggressive commercial negotiation methods at the expense of suppliers, farmers and producers.
Further competition is coming from the tech giants as Amazon and Alibaba invest in the food industry. What are the implications of all these changes on working conditions, the quality of our food and the future of our planet?

The model of everything under one roof is looking increasingly strained. What is the future for food retail in the digital age?

Supermarkets: The End of an Empire?

Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we also find epic landscapes, dizzying ideas and even, sometimes, useful things!

Math is an exotic and confusing country...

Journey into Maths Country

Ghofrane was a lifelong victim of racial discrimination. Now she's a political activist in Tunisia, determined to put an end to racism in her country. In 2019 she was a candidate for the Tahya Tounes party. The film accompanies her in her political endeavors, while also revealing the private and vulnerable side of the self-confident young woman.

Ghofrane was a lifelong victim of racism. Now she's a political activist in Tunisia, determined to stop it

She Had a Dream

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Thousands of British Jews have German ancestors who fled to Britain to escape Nazi persecution. According to the German constitution, these descendants can ‘reclaim’ their German citizenship; Since Brexit, many have taken the step to apply.

London's Jewish Community and Brexit

Thousands of British Jews have German ancestors who fled to Britain to escape Nazi persecution. According to the German constitution, these descendants can ‘reclaim’ their German citizenship.

Re: Emigrating to Germany?

There are almost 8,000 rare diseases in the world and in Europe, more than 30 million people suffer from them. But for pharmaceutical companies, the potential profit is too low and won't cover the cost of the research into new treatments. Patients therefore have no choice but to learn to live with their disease.

For pharmaceutical companies, developing treatments for the rare diseases that impact over 30 million Europeans is just not profitable enough

Re: Rare Conditions

In 2018, in Zgierza, Poland, an illegal plastic waste dump on the outskirts of the city went up in flames. The smoke column could be seen for miles, and the fire took a week to put out. But the illegal landfill still hasn't been cleared and the company that operated the landfill has long since gone bankrupt. There are still around 800 illegal landfills across the country. 

Poland is being turned into Europe's illegal dumping ground

Re: Illegal Waste Exports

It is an issue that has long been taboo: Almost half of women suffers physical or verbal abuse during childbirth. An increasing number of women are speaking out publicly about obstetric violence.

Re: Violence in the Delivery Room

A look at German Jewish people who have settled in the occupied West Bank. In international law these Israeli settlements are illegal and yet the settlers feel they have a right to the land. What attracted these Europeans here? And how do they see life living amongst Palestinians?

German Jewish Settlers in the West Bank

A look at German Jewish people who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

Re: Who Does the Holy Land Belong To?

Viktoria and Zoltan are in love. They live in Budapest but Viktoria is moving to Berlin for a chance of a better life. Will Zoltan be able to follow her there? The Hungarian couple are one of many that have left Hungary in the last decade.

Hungarians Leaving Home

Viktoria and Zoltan are in love. They live in Budapest but Viktoria is moving to Berlin for a chance of a better life. Will Zoltan be able to follow her there?

Re: One Way Ticket to Berlin

Whilst in most of Europe violent crime is decreasing, in Sweden gun violence is on the rise. The cause: Gangs of young men from difficult neighbourhoods.

Re: Gang Warfare in Sweden

The war in eastern Ukraine between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists has been raging for seven years now. It is the civilian population that seems to be paying the highest price with severe water shortages: The main water pipe of the region runs straight through the frontline and seems to be a target.

The war in eastern Ukraine has seen severe water shortages for the civilian population. The main water pipe of the region runs straight through the frontline and seems to be a target.

Re: Ukraine Water Wars

The Ambulance Wish Foundation, based in Rotterdam, fulfils last wishes of terminally ill patients. 270 medically trained volunteers take patients by ambulance to the zoo, on boat cruises and to important family occasions.

Medically trained volunteers take patients by ambulance to the zoo, on boat cruises and to important family occasions to fulfill their last wishes.

Re: The Dutch Ambulance Wish Foundation

A new substance is taking Europe by storm: cannabidiol (or CBD) from the hemp plant. Available as an oil, herbal tea, spray or cream, it is said to have soothing properties and can relieve chronic stress, without making the user high. But what are the real powers of this molecule?

A new substance is taking Europe by storm: cannabidiol (or CBD) from the hemp plant. Available as an oil, herbal tea, spray or cream, it is said to have soothing properties and can relieve stress.

Re: The CBD Revolution

Denmark has made headlines across Europe with its migrant policy. Harsher punishment for offences, lessons in Danish culture, forced relocation from problem neighbourhoods. While some see the ghetto laws as the solution to dealing with parallel societies, for many residents it is turning their lives upside down.

Denmark's Immigration Hardline

Re: Ghetto Laws

Alexis Fleming lives surrounded by more than a hundred animals: goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens. They've all been rescued from the slaughterhouse. To accommodate them, she set up a farm animal hospice on the Scottish coast. At 40, suffering from an incurable disease, she sees her farm as a place full of life where death is not a taboo subject.

A Scottish Animal Hospice

Alexis Fleming runs an animal hospice where death is not a taboo subject

Re: For the Love of Animals

Sasha Nazar wants to save a crumbling synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, one of the last in the city. Where once a thriving Jewish community lived, now only a small community is present.

Re: Saving a Ukrainian Synagogue

For many couples and single women, resorting to private sperm donation is often the only way to parenthood. A myriad of websites connect women and donors. But this process is not without risk: the quality of the sperm is sometimes poor and the identity of the donor often remains secret.

A myriad of websites connect women and donors. But this process is not without risk

Re: Sperm Banks

After years of factory farming, a pig farm cooperative in Brandenburg is on the brink of bankruptcy due to the collapse in pig prices. A visionary farmer proposes a change of tack…

Converting to Organic Farming

Re: Posh Pork

The high waters that flooded Venice in November 2019 were the worst since the terrible floods of 1966 and damage to Venice's rich cultural heritage was considerable. With sea levels rising due to climate change, many are pessimistic about the vulnerable lagoon city's prospects. Can Venice survive?

Re: Can Venice Be Saved from the Waves?

Lots of cars, little greenery and hardly any meeting places: locals have started to shun city centres that no longer serve their needs. How can we ensure that urban centers become alive and livable again? More and more municipalities are laying the foundations for a social city, respectful of people and the environment.

How can we ensure that urban centers become alive and livable again?

Re: Rethinking Urban Spaces

Sexual education and sexuality deeply divides Poland. A younger generation wants access to liberal sex education and acceptance of sexual minorities whereas a conservative older generation, influenced by the catholic church, rejects these moves towards a liberal society.

Re: Sexual Education in Poland

The pandemic has revealed weaknesses in the German healthcare system due to underfunding and staff shortages. Chronic stress amongst staff has led to burnout and many nurses leaving the profession.

Healthcare Professionals on the Edge

Re: Burnout at the Hospital

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Georgia supplied all of Eastern Europe with tea, as the climate in the country is ideal for cultivation. When Hannes discovered that the tea of her childhood had ceased production, she and partner left for Georgia and leased an overgrown tea plantation. They use all organic methods and pay workers above-average wages.

What started as a mad escapade bloomed into a sustainable business that employs local people

Re: Green Farming, Black Tea

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A diverse selection of documentary film focusing on pointing the complex world around us.

ARTE Documentary Film Festival 2021

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In southern Germany and Austria citizens are campaigning against motorbikes on country roads, which they say are unnecessarily loud. Whereas bikers want to be able to enjoy their hobby and ride freely.

In southern Germany and Austria citizens are campaigning against motorbikes on country roads, which they say are unnecessarily loud. 

Bikers vs Citizens

The CBD Revolution

The migrants issue is hanging over Europe: On the Polish-Belarus border, in the English Channel, between Spain and Morocco.

The Migrant Issue

Fortress Europe

It changed our way of life, our economy and the global order. How did we become addicted to oil? This is the fascinating history of how black gold became a vital source of energy and a maker of nations.

It changed our way of life, our economy and the global order. How did we become addicted to oil? 

Petrol: A Story of Power

Paris, 13 November 2015 Islamist terrorists cause bloody chaos on the streets resulting in 130 deaths and 600 injuries. It was the worst terrorist attack on French soil and has left many individuals traumatised.
This documentary weaves victims’ testimonies, academic insight and archive footage to try to understand how people deal with trauma and how a collective memory is formed around a terrible event of such magnitude. How will the attacks be remembered in the future?

Building a Collective Memory

How do people deal with trauma and build a collective memory around terrorist attacks?

Paris Attacks: November 2015

Many countries in the Middle East do not allow civil marriage which means that mixed-faith couples cannot easily marry. But just 30 minutes’ flight from Lebanon and Israel lies Cyprus where foreigners can easily tie the knot.

Where mixed-faith couples from the Middle East come to tie the knot.

Cyprus: Forbidden Love Island

In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover, all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

It’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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The story of Ireland’s devastating famine where one million died and two million emigrated. Narrated by Liam Neeson.

Narrated by Cillian Murphy, this is the remarkable story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) which resulted in the formation of the Irish Free State and became the model for other British colonies to gain their independence.

Looking back at eight centuries of the history of Ireland, this troubled and beautiful land colonised for centuries by its larger neighbour. From the first English invasion to the Ulster plantation, from the division of Ireland through the Troubles to the present day.

A History of Ireland

Looking back at eight centuries of history of this troubled and beautiful land 

Bloody Border

In Northern Ireland tensions are high as the realities of Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol become apparent. ARTE meets members of the loyalist community leading up to 12 July, Orangemen’s Day.

Tensions in Northern Ireland

Re: A Brexit Powder Keg

June 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the epic D Day landings. This documentary tells the extraordinary true story of the most significant weather report of modern times. Through dramatised reconstructions, archive footage and contemporary interviews, the documentary uncovers the incredible story of Ireland’s unknown but critical role in WWII and how – in the summer of 1944 - the timing of the D-Day landings came to hinge on readings taken by a 21-year-old girl in a tiny remote weather station on Europe’s most westerly headland.

How an Irish weather forecast won WWII

Cyclonic Bomb

In February 2014 Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill, spoke at Dublin's Abbey theatre where he denounced homophobia. The speech became an internet sensation and made Panti Bliss a symbol of the gay rights struggle in Ireland.

Great Speeches - Panti Bliss

In February 2014 Panti Bliss gave a speech at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre denouncing homophobia in Ireland.

YES, EQUAL! The Road to Equality

A focus on Irish history from the struggle for independence to the pain of partition and the tragedy of the Great Famine.

Irish History

The Emerald Isle

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Durante todo el mes de diciembre, descubre 12 películas de jóvenes autores europeos. Vota el Premio del Público y gana un viaje al Festival de Cine de Cannes, al Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín o una bicicleta inteligente. Entre el documental y la ficción, estas películas nos ofrecen diversas visiones sobre un mundo en plena metamorfosis.

An online European Film Festival

From 1-31 December, discover 12 dynamic European films and vote for your favourite films. There are prizes to be won!

ArteKino Festival

ArteKino

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Who are we? And how do we want to live? Streetphilosophy looks for answers to life's big question on the streets of Berlin.

Streetphilosophy

Twist is the cultural magazine show that visits a different European metropolis in each episode to take the pulse of its artistic scene.

Twist is the cultural magazine show that visits a European metropolis in each episode to take the pulse of the city’s artistic scene.

TWIST

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show.

42 – The Answer to Nearly Everything

Then complex world of geopolitics broken down into ten minute, bite-sized chunks. You'll never sound uninformed at the dinner table ever again.

Tracks reports on geek culture, current music, film and emerging artistic forms

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The best way to discover a new place is to see it through the eyes of artists who've been inspired by it, to go off the beaten track, or to ask a local. With City Country Culture, we do all three.

Discovering new places through the eyes of artists who've been inspired by it, by getting of the beaten track, and by asking the locals.