Deutsch-französischer Kultursender. Videos, Livestream | ARTE

ARTE : chaîne télé culturelle franco-allemande - TV direct & replay

ARTE, the European culture TV channel, free and on demand

ARTE en español - Gratis, en español, una selección del canal cultural europeo ARTE

ARTE, europejska telewizja kulturalna na życzenie

ARTE, il canale culturale europeo, gratis e on demand

Rising sea levels are accelerating as a result of global warming and places like Miami, Venice, Belgium and the Marshall Islands are at high risk from sinking beneath the waves. What can these cities and territories do to adapt to higher sea levels and keep the water at bay?

Rising sea levels are threatening places like Miami and the Marshall Islands. What can be done to keep the water at bay?

After the Flood

Top Teaser

The massive German open-air electro festival is back! This year's line-up includes such not-to-be-missed DJs as Klaudia Gawlas, KÖLSCH, Markus Schulz, ALIGNMENT and many more. All performed in atotally unique setting: the former NATO missile base of Pydna in Rhineland-Palatinate. Don't miss a beat and stay up with us until the break of dawn!

NatureOne 2024 Day 2: With KÖLSCH, Markus Schulz, ALIGNMENT and more

The massive German open-air festival serves up a series of electrifying sets to keep you on your feet until the end of the night!

NatureOne Day 2

The massive German open-air electro festival is back! This year's line-up includes Paul van Dyk, ESKEI83, SHLØMO and many more. All performing in an incredibly unique setting: The former NATO Pydna missile base in Rhineland-Palatinate. Prepare yourself for a whole night of incredible music without missing a beat!

NatureOne Day 1: With Paul van Dyk, SHLØMO, ESKEI83 and more...

The massive German open-air festival serves up a series of electrifying sets to keep you grooving until the end of the night!

NatureOne Day 1

Global warming is causing more intense periods of drought, but what consequences will it have on European tourism? From Spain to Greece, this ARTE Europe weekly, we look at how some European countries are rising to the challenge.

Italy, Spain, Greece: Can Droughts Kill Tourism?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Ireland’s celebrated and controversial novelist, who died in July 2024, speaks to Ray Byrne for the Irish broadcaster RTE.
In her 80th year, Edna O'Brien reflects on the way her turbulent life has shaped her religious beliefs and moral values. Years in self-imposed exile from both her country and her Church did not diminish her attachment to both.

This programme was brought to you thanks to ARTE's partnership with Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.

Ireland's great controversial writer - an interview

An interview with Edna O'Brien, a bold and brilliant writer, who recently passed away.

Edna O’Brien

The Versace story is a family story of glory and tragedy that reads like a glamorous soap opera.  In the late 1970s, Gianni Versace founded a small family business that would grow into a global fashion empire with his older brother in charge of the finances and his sister as artistic director. His audacious designs would revolutionise the fashion industry. 

The Versace Saga: The story of an extraordinary family

A family story of glory and tragedy that reads like a glamorous soap opera.

The Versace Saga

Highlights

Rowing, and the eight in particular, has a long tradition that is not just about sport: political influence, relationships and women's fight for equal rights have also played a major role. This documentary follows the German men's eight as it prepares for Paris 2024 as well as the historic Boat Race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

With all eyes on the Olympic Games in Paris, the documentary sheds light on the myth of the eight-man rowing team.

Eight on Board: A History of Rowing

In 1810, Marshal Masséna's Napoleonic army invades Portugal, only to be defeated at Buçaco. Despite this setback, the Portuguese and British, led by General Wellington, strategically retreat. Valeria Sarmiento's epic frames this pivotal moment of the Peninsular War through a mosaic of human drama. As the battle looms, soldiers and civilians from all walks of life – caught in webs of love, deceit, nobility, and ruthlessness – converge on the battlefield, where their fates will be forged in the fires of war and ambition.

A Star-studded war epic

Napoleon's army meets its match in Lisbon, where war, love, and betrayal collide.

Lines of Wellington

Choreographer Marcos Morau and the Ballet Nacional de España combine their choreographic work with the images of Colombian photographer Ruvén Afanador.

Marcos Morau's breathtaking choreography

A work where dance and photography meet, celebrating the work of fashion photographer Ruvén Afanador.

Afanador

From 26 July to 11 August 2024, Paris hosts the Olympic Games, a major challenge for the French capital, which is expected to welcome 15 million visitors. Discover our reports and analysis on and around this major sporting event.

Discover our reports and analysis on and around this major international sporting event.

Olympic Games: Paris 2024

Frank and Sarah, two strangers with cerebral palsy, find themselves drawn into each other's dysfunctional lives after seeing their able-bodied friends in an embarrassing situation in a bar. A bright, funny and no-holds-barred Australian series about sexuality and disability.

A bright, funny and no-holds-barred Australian series about sexuality and disability.

Latecomers

In 1924 Danzig, Oskar Matzerath, an unusual boy, decides at age three to stop growing, protesting the adult world's hypocrisy. As WWII erupts, Oskar wields his tin drum and screams in defiance against the rise of Nazism. His refusal to grow up symbolises resistance amidst the chaos. The director's cut of Volker Schlöndorff's film, based on Günter Grass's novel.

Oscar-winning film based on Gunther Grass's classic

A little boy who refuses to grow up uses his tin drum to protest the chaos and hypocrisy of the adult world during WWII.

The Tin Drum

Rihanna's rise to global pop icon seems almost fairytale-like: She grew up in a modest home on Barbados, before leaving the Caribbean island nation as a teenager for the USA. There she became a pop star selling millions of albums and established herself as a billionaire entrepreneur.
Rihanna is the most famous Bajan on the world stage. The youngest republic in the world only broke away from the British crown in 2021, and Rihanna has put herself at its service. This documentary tells Rihanna's career from the perspective of her home island and traces her dual role as a global star and national heroine, which has not been without controversy.

From modest beginnings to global stardom. The story of the sometimes-controversial national heroine of Barbados.

Rihanna: Pop Ambassador

From the 13th to 15th June 2024, Sónar transforms Barcelona once again into a mecca for electronic music and the digital arts. Watch some of the highlights here on ARTE Concert: Ben Böhmer, Richie Hawtin, Adriatique and many others, all available from the 18 July.

Photo © Nerea Coll

One of Europe's most prestigious electronic festivals, held in the heart of the Catalan capital.

Sónar 2024

The Dolomites, the breathtaking mountains of northern Italy, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rising majestically from lush green valleys up to towering peaks. Popular with nature lovers, they also offer a unique cuisine and Alpine way of life.

Summer in the Italian Alps - The Dolomites

The breathtaking mountains of northern Italy are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rising majestically from lush green valleys up to towering peaks.

The Dolomites

Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840) was the most important painter of German Romanticism, today he is one of the most famous artists in the world. This documentary sheds new light on Friedrich's work, illuminates the themes of his art and the significance of his relationship with nature, with the help of art historians and contemporary artists.

Towards the Infinite

Shedding new light on Germany’s best known romantic artist whose landscapes inspire and exhilarate the viewer.

Caspar David Friedrich

Alternative icons Arcade Fire are known for their rousing performances, and this one, captured at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival, is no exception. A journey of pure poetic energy

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Canada's Arcade Fire live up to their storming reputation in Bilbao.

Arcade Fire

Sportswear has come to dominate high fashion and the high street. What began one hundred years ago as functional clothes for tennis or golf has led to a revolution in how we dress. Sportswear’s influence on fashion, as told by fashion experts, rappers, footballers , and the public.

The Rise of Sportswear

How leotards, leggings and tracksuits have become the uniform of our daily lives.

Champion Chic

Unmissable

My List

Continue watching

Discovery

Culture

History

Science

ARTE Concert

Politics and Society

Cinema

Browse our whole catalogue

Categories and Genres

Discover our whole catalogue

Spanish musician Sílvia Pérez Cruz brings the 2024 edition of the Avignon Festival to a musical close. A task she accomplished with brio, backed by muisc from her latest album Toda la vida, un día.

Avignon Festival 2024

Sílvia Pérez Cruz at the closing concert of the Festival d'Avignon 2024.

Toda la vida, un dia: Silvia Pérez Cruz

The Californian punk rock wave of the 1990s wouldn't have existed without them: Hellfest welcomes The Offspring for a furious show, all saturated guitars and snide criticism of a lethargic American society.

A furious show from The Offspring, all saturated guitars and snide criticism of a lethargic American society.

The Offspring

German producer and performer Ben Böhmer is one of the great architects of electronic music. He is known for his haunting sounds and deep, dreamlike beats. His new album Bloom comes out in September, and his world tour has brought him to the prestigious Sónar 2024 festival in Barcelona.

The German producer and performer, a veritable icon of the electronic scene, takes to the stage at Barcelona's Sónar festival.

Ben Böhmer live

At the crossroads of circus, theatre and dance, this is the latest creation from the enchanting Franco-Catalan company Baro d'evel, who have been invited to the Avignon festival, for the first time. A total art form woven from fine threads of fantasy, poetry and burlesque.

Mixing circus, theatre and dance, this is the latest creation from the Franco-Catalan company Baro d'evel.

Baro d'evel: Qui som?

Simple Minds perform their cult album New Gold Dream in the unique setting of the Théâtre Antique de Fourvière, along with some of their other timeless hits.

Nuits de Fourvière 2024

The Scottish rock legends take over the ancient theatre of Fourvière.

Simple Minds

Megadeth defend their title as champions of thrash metal at Hellfest in a performance mixing timeless classics and more recent material.

Hellfest 2024

Megadeth

Maria José Llergo is one of a wave of Spanish artists giving flamenco a new lease of life. She will be presenting ULTRABELLEZA, her first full-length album, at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo combines flamenco and hip-hop for the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo

High-tech fusion witchcraft: the heart of Baiuca beats to the rhythm of the ancestral traditions of their native Galicia. This group's inspiration comes from centuries-old songs and poems: The perfect substrate for an avant-garde fusion, an unbridled mix of samples of traditional tunes and music with a few everyday objects thrown in for good measure.

Bardentreffen Festival 2024

High-tech fusion witchcraft: The heart of Baiuca beats to the rhythm of the ancestral traditions of their native Galicia.

Baiuca

DJ and producer Richie Hawtin is one of the leading lights of electronic music, with a career spanning more than twenty-five years.  In his own words, "the whole art of techno is to make the machines disappear". This techno visionary is a regular at Barcelona's Sónar and returns this year with a new show, DEX EFX X0X.

This techno visionary is a regular fixture at Sónar, here returning in 2024 with his brand new show "DEX EFX X0X".

Richie Hawtin: DEX EFX X0X

Every year, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival takes over some of the most unusual venues in Germany's most northerly state. Churches, barns, farms and shipyards host around 200 performances. At the Kulturwerft Gollan in Lübeck, young cellist Anastasia Kobekina presents Venezia, an eclectic programme of Italian music.

Schleswig-Holstein Festival 2024

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina puts Venice in the spotlight at the 2024 Schleswig-Holstein Festival.

Anastasia Kobekina

Cimafunk is the ultimate blend of funk and Cuban music. An unstoppable cocktail that the musician serves up with generosity at the Nuits de Fourvière.

Cimafunk

Quebec's Simple Plan set Germany's Southside Festival alight. Known for hits like "Welcome to My Life" and "Perfect", they navigate between pop punk rhythms and catchy melodies.

Southside Festival 2024

Simple Plan play pumped-up pop punk with some great melodies and plenty of bratty passion.

Simple Plan

Amidst the riffs and growls that turn Hellfest into a maelstrom of fury, one artist stands out: Sylvaine. Welcome to shoegaze territory.

A bubble of sensitivity and emotion at Hellfest.

Sylvaine

The latest edition of the Festival International de Colmar opens with an exceptional performance from the Orchestre Symphonique du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. After Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin, baritone Stéphane Degout sings Mahler's Songs of a Wandering Companion. The evening at Saint-Matthieu church closes with César Franck's Symphony in D minor, a jewel from the repertoire of the late 19th century.

Festival international de Colmar

A "Royal Overture" of Wagner, Mahler and Franck, conducted by Alain Altinoglu and featuring baritone Stéphane Degout.

A Royal Overture

American indie rock band The National, known for hits such as "Bloodbuzz Ohio" and "I Need My Girl", successfully mix introspective lyrics and atmospheric melodies. Their concerts are often essential experiences and have cemented their reputation on the international stage. Here they perform a emotional set at German festival Southside.

The National's punchy indie rock with introspective lyrics is always a crowd-pleaser.

The National

Machine Head blew Hellfest away in 2007 and 2012. In 2024, their epic stagecraft repeats the performance.

Machine Head

German-Canadian singer Alice Merton, famous for her hit "No Roots", presents songs from her albums Mint and S.I.D.E.S. Her powerful voice and catchy melodies have won over fans across the world. Relive her performance at the Southside Festival, one of Germany's biggest open-air pop and rock festivals.

Alice Merton wows fans the world over with her blend of old-school pop and bracing electro.

Alice Merton

Chamayou and Andsnes work their magic at every concert. This time, the two partners perform miniatures from the Játékok (games) cycle by Hungarian composer György Kurtág. Mirroring them are deeply moving pieces composed by Schubert shortly before his death, in which beauty meets suffering.

Ruhr Piano Festival 2024

Pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Leif Ove Andsnes perform a duet in Düsseldorf.

Bertrand Chamayou and Leif Ove Andsnes

Corey Taylor, singer from Slipknot and Stone Sour, takes to the Hellfest stage as a solo artist performing from his third CMF2B...Or Not 2B.

Corey Taylor

More

Summer Festival Season Highlights

Forty years ago, in June 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israelis. A small guerrilla group came together in secret to resist this offensive. Formed and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, it officially declared itself in 1985 as Hezbollah: The Party of God.
Four decades later, this small group has grown to become one of the most important military and political forces in the Middle East. A party of resistance for some, a terrorist group for others, Hezbollah is admired as much as it is feared. But the organisation, practically a state within a state, is living through turbulent times as Lebanon is experiencing a major political and economic crisis.

As  Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group Hezbollah, a controversial organisation supported by Iran.

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah

Once a pariah on the international stage, the war in Ukraine seems to have put Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, back at the centre of the game: The west needs Venezuelan oil after imposing sanctions on Russia. From revolutionary hero to increasingly autocratic ruler, this documentary follows in the footsteps of a canny and ruthless politician who never ceases to surprise his opponents and always seems to bounce back.

Following in the footsteps of a canny and ruthless politician who never ceases to surprise his opponents.

Maduro: From Socialism to Dictatorship

Recent scandals have revealed the brutal methods used in training young athletes. This damning investigation, based on numerous eyewitness accounts, exposes the workings of an elite training culture that sacrifices children in the name of sporting glory.

Winning at Any Price - How elite sport harms children

An investigation exposing how elite sport sacrifices children in the name of sporting glory.

Children in Elite Sport

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war. Their ideology is as ferociously anti-American and antisemitic, as it is pro-Palestine with young people indoctrinated into a strict religious view of the world that burns with anger.

ARTE Reportage

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war.

Yemen: Houthi Fury

Camels have been part of daily life in the Middle East and North Africa for thousands of years. To honour these beautiful animals, the United Nations has declared 2024 the "International Year of the Camelid". In Europe, these animals are becoming more popular.  In France, camels are trained for therapeutic or sporting purposes... or to perform at weddings.

the camel population is increasing in Europe, used for racing, to perform at weddings, and for their rich milk.

Re: Camels of Europe

Abductions take place on a massive scale in Nigeria. In one week in March, almost 500 people were abducted in two towns in the north of the country, many of them school children. On average, ten people are kidnapped every day in the country, five times as many as in Mexico and Colombia combined.

Kidnapping in Nigeria

In Nigeria, gangs kidnap women, men and children en masse in order to extort ransom money from their families.

The average Belgian consumes 48kg of sugar a year, twice the maximum amount recommended by the World Health Organisation. And they’re not the only ones for whom sugar is a daily drug. Researchers have found that sugar can have the same effect on our brains as narcotics – lab rats in one experiment found it more addictive than cocaine. And sugar is everywhere, even where you least expect it, leading to over-consumption that’s rapidly becoming a public health crisis.

This programme by Belgian broadcaster RTBF is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative from European public service media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR, RTBF and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Sugar has become our daily drug, and this often hidden enemy is leading us into a public health crisis.

Sugar, the daily drug

The war in Ukraine poses acute geopolitical challenges for the Europe. This documentary goes behind the scenes of EU diplomats and follows the work of Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and his team. It’s a rare insight into the complex machinery of modern diplomacy in a dangerous world.

A rare insight into the complex machinery of European diplomacy in a dangerous world.

Inside European Diplomacy

In 2019, Morocco celebrated 20 years of King Muhammad VI's reign. He's managed to impose his own style through gradual reforms. But the country is also deeply divided and unequal. Though the King wishes to reform, he must face opposing forces of tradition and common law. The challenges are numerous and the threats are significant. He must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

The King must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

Mohammed VI, The King With Two Faces

Tidying, clearing out, decluttering: social media is awash with advice on how to simplify or improve your life by living with less things. Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions and even people, getting rid of toxic people in their lives. But does minimalism make them happier?

Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions. But does living with less things make them happier?

Re: Minimalism - A Life of Luxury?

A look back at the last 12 months before Britain left the European Union, which finally happened on 31 January 2020. It was a year of chaos and plotting, fear and loathing, often descending into farce.

A look back at the last chaotic 12 months before Britain left the European Union on 31 January 2020

Brexit Endgame: 2019-2020

Since 1 April 2024, cannabis has been legal to consume in Germany which raises a number of major questions: where should the 400 tonnes of resin consumed each year in Germany come from?

Weed Becomes Legal in Germany

Cannabis is now legal in Germany. But how can this growing sector provide enough product for consumers?

Re: Cannabis for All

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

Hellfest - ZONE EVENT

What makes a good socialist animal? In the GDR in the 1950s, relations between humans and animals were redefined according to socialist ideals. Gone were the days of cuddling cats at home or taking dogs for long walks: in a society that rejected individualism, animals had to be useful to the community in East Germany.

Animals of the GDR

In communist East Germany, relations between humans and animals were redefined according to socialist ideals.

Socialist Creatures

It is still not clear where in Africa the cradle of humanity lies. To date, fossilised remains of our ancestors have been found in Ethiopia and South Africa, among other places. An international research tea, Human Origins, is searching for more fossils around southern Africa to try and find the first humans.

An international research team is trying to find where the first human beings came from.

Africa: Looking for the First Humans

In 1869, life was good for Geneviève: she was young, rich and in love. She lived in a fashionable part of Paris and her future should have been bright. But that future was shattered when France and Prussia went to war. The Prussian army beseiged Paris. As Paris starved, Geneviève wrote. A record of how one woman's hopes and dreams are forever changed by world events beyond her control.

A Parisienne's Memoirs of War

In 1869, life was good for Geneviève: she was young, rich and in love. But war would change everything.