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At once seductive and dangerous, historical myth and male fantasy, the femme fatale represents both erotic promise and a death trap to the male observer. Conceived at the end of the 19th century in the works of Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth, the femme fatale was completely reinvented in the 20th century by many female artists.

The Femme Fatale in Art

Seductive and dangerous, the femme fatale in art is ever-present.

Dangerous Women

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Highly influential indie rockers from Boston, famous for such tracks as Debaser and Where is my mind perform in Paris as part of a European tour for their latest album Doggerel.

The legendary indie rockers perform in Paris as part of their European tour.

Pixies - Live at the Paris Olympia

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating over the breakaway region of Transnistria, an investigation on how prepared Europe is for another summer of wildfires, and a report from the Dissident Club in Paris.

Tensions in Moldova / WildFires in Europe

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating with street protests and controversy over Russian secret documents.

ARTE Europe Weekly

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Good News From Our Planet

Music director of the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru takes his musicians on a tour of his homeland, Romania. A tour stopping in Timişoara, his hometown. On the programme: The Piano Concerto No. 2 by Johannes Brahms with soloist Simon Trpčeski.

Brahms in Romania

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne perform Brahms and Klaus Lang in Romania.

Cristian Mācelaru Live in Timişoara

In El Salvador, gangs have terrorised the country for decades. But when Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, becoming the youngest head of state in Latin America, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

El Salvador: The coolest dictator in the world?

When Nayib Bukelewa was elected president in 2019, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

ARTE Reportage

Less than 40 kilometres separate the French coast from England at Calais. The crossing seems easy to many, although in reality it is highly dangerous. Smugglers have recently been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life.

Smugglers have been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life in England.

Children of Calais

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2,500 documents were leaked from Prigozhin’s servers by anti-Putin hackers, shedding light on this secretive group of mercenaries, a key element in the war in Ukraine.

Data Sources

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The Prigozhin Papers

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were once little-known countries nestled away in northeastern Europe, but they now have a front row seat to the invasion of Ukraine. Former members of the Soviet Union and neighbours of Russia, they see the war as a threat to their own security. They fear that they'll be next.

Baltic States: On the Edge of War

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania view the Ukraine war as a threat to their own security.

Mapping the World

The new Windsor agreement between the EU and the UK is hoped to improve relations and solve the Northern Ireland issue.

Mapping the World Essentials

The new agreement between the EU and the UK is hoped to improve relations and solve the Northern Ireland issue.

Northern Ireland: Windsor Agreement

Bullfighting is one of Spain's most emblematic traditions, but it has been losing ground for several years now due to environmental movements and a society increasingly sensitive to animal welfare.

Bullfighting is one of Spain's most emblematic traditions, but its popularity has been waning in recent years.

Re: Spaniards Turn Against Bullfighting

Since the right to an abortion was revoked by the US supreme court in June 2022, abortions have been banned in Alabama. Six months late ARTE reports from the conservative southern state where women face the difficult decision of leaving the state of keeping unwanted pregnancies.

Since the right to an abortion was revoked by the US supreme court in June 2022, abortions have been banned in Alabama. ARTE reports from the conservative southern state.

USA: Abortion in Alabama

January 20, 1997. Daft Punk released Homework and began their conquest of the planet. But Inrockuptibles music critic Christophe Conte was scathing. 24 years, 6 grammys and 11 million albums sold later, he's had to eat his words. Daft Punk's victory begs the question: what if everything the journalist hated about them was precisely what made the band so successful?

10 years of Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance. Filmed at Ground Control in Paris.

Ground Control

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance.

Ben Harper

Relations between the two neighbours hit by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake are complex, especially since the war in Syria.

Turkey and Syria: United by the Earthquake?

Reggae emerged in the 1960s and in 1985 Wayne Smith's Under Mi Sleng Teng revolutionised the genre. But the riddim of this famous song didn't come from the island - it was written by a Japanese woman, Okuda Hiroko, an employee at Casio.

Japanese Regqae

The riddim of the revolutionary song Under Mi Sleng Teng was created by a Casio employee from Japan. 

Gymnastics

This winter, a wave of strikes has swept across Britain as workers in numerous sectors call for pay rises in line with inflation. A focus on union activity in the United Kingdom.

This winter, a wave of strikes has swept across Britain as workers in numerous sectors call for pay rises in line with inflation.

Trade Unionism in the UK

In Peru, every year, the people who live in remote mountain villages gather to build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka, a traditional structure of woven grass, and the last of its kind. This ancestral know-how inherited from the Incas, and the enduring spirit of community, enables the villagers to pull off a stunning feat of engineering, time and again.

In Peru, every year, villagers build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka from woven grass, and the last of its kind.

The Inca Grass Bridge of Q'eswachaka

Since the Elysée Treaty of friendship was signed between France and Germany in January 1962, the two countries have built ever closer ties. In this intimate documentary, individual Germans from both east and west share their experiences of French culture in the post-war era.

In this intimate documentary, individual Germans from both east and west share their experiences of French culture in the post-war era.

How the Germans Learned to Love France

The Western Balkans Youth Orchestra is 31 young musicians from six Western Balkan countries. The brainchild of Desar Sulejmani, their aim is to bring peace and cooperation to the region through musical collaboration. We join them on their international summer tour…

The Balkan Orchestra

The Western Balkans Youth Orchestra aims is to bring peace and cooperation to the region through musical collaboration. We join them on their international summer tour…

Re: Playing for Peace

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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

Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen imagined the story of an evil troll who wanted to drive the goodness out of the hearts of humans. To achieve this, he hangs a huge magic mirror in front of the moon. When it breaks, the people touched by its shards become insensitive to human kindness and see the worst in people.

Ice hockey, figure skating, dance and acrobatics tells Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale. 

The Snow Queen

Kim Jong Un's lookalike says the doubles of presidents and dictators are “a little family”. When war broke out, he immediately reached out to President Zelensky's doppelgänger, a mechanic from Kyiv. He feared his colleague would be kidnapped by Russians and killed on camera to make people think the real president was dead. 'Kim' called fake Putin, based in Poland, to help get their fellow doppelgänger to safety.

Living in Kyiv when the Russians invade is a bad time to be a Zelensky lookalike...

Ukraine: Saving the Fake Zelensky

For nearly six decades, retiree Willie Daly has been helping single people find their soulmate in rural Ireland. Every September, he is the star of the Matchmaking Festival held in his village of Lisdoonvarna where people come from far and wide to look for love.

Rural Ireland's alternative to dating apps is the Matchmaking Festival in Lisdoonvarna, Europe's largest.

Re: Irelands Answer to Tinder

During the Second World War, two separate resistance networks, one based in Brussels and then Paris, and the other in Berlin, provided inteligence to the Soviets. This in-depth documentary tells their story and how the Third Reich tried to hunt them down.

The story of the underground resistance networks that provided intelligence to the Soviets during WW2.

The Red Orchestra

It will soon be a year since Russia invaded their country, but Ukrainians remain optimistic: 88% of them are convinced that within ten years their country will be a member of the European Union and will enjoy prosperity. And many Ukrainian artists, singers, inventors and entrepreneurs believe that their country should not be reduced to the role of victim. Musician Olga Osinnya meets people in Kyiv who are looking towards the future with hope.

The Day After Tomorrow

Tracks East meets people in Kyiv who are looking towards the future with hope.

Tracks East

Hortense is an art history professor like no other: irreverent, subversive, and determined to reveal the hidden erotic power in European art.

New season

Hortense is an art history professor like no other: irreverent and subversive and here to reveal the hidden meaning in European art.

Look But Don't Touch

Tracks goes east and meets artists and journalists to get a different perspective on the war in Ukraine.

Under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional New Year's Eve concert brings you an enchanting programme led by star tenor Jonas Kaufmann. A delightful medley of Verdi, Prokofiev, Nino Rota, Tchaikovsky and more.

And the Berlin Philharmonic 

 A delightful medley of Verdi, Prokofiev, Nino Rota, Tchaikovsky and more.

New Year's Eve with Jonas Kaufmann

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BirthStrike are a group of activists that are fighting climate change by not having children. A Fridays for Future for thirtysomethings founded by musician Blythe Pepino, they say that they cannot bring life into a world with impending ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’.  

Birthstrike are a group of activists that are fighting climate change by not having children. A Fridays for Future for thirtysomethings founded by musician Blythe Pepino, they say that they cannot bring life into a world with impending ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’.  

BirthStrike: Staying Childless to Save the Planet

In this episode, we discover with the journalist Pierre Girard how cows can make the activity of a farm more respectful of nature and how sheep can improve cereal harvests. These unusual methods could offer a solution to agriculture's carbon emissions problem.

Climate-Killer Cows

In this episode, we discover with the journalist Pierre Girard how cows can make the activity of a farm more respectful of nature.

Roots

Energy from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas made modern life possible in the first place; but that modern way of life is now in danger from the climate crisis and temperature extremes. Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

The Perfect Energy Source

Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Climate change is often viewed as a far-off phenomenon but the effects are already being felt around the world by millions of people. A global overview of the regions on the frontline of the climate catastrophe.

Climate Change Is Happening Now

 A global overview of the regions on the frontline of the climate catastrophe.

Among the nine federated states that make up the Brazilian Amazon, Rondônia has lost the most forest: a surface area the size of New York has been wiped up the map, up 50% from the year before.

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is accelerating

Brazil: Impunity in the Amazon

Svalbard lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole and has more polar bears than human inhabitants. This starkly beautiful land is on the frontline of climate change with dramatic and visible changes over the last decade.

Svalbard: Fastest Warming Place on Earth

Svalbard lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole and has more polar bears than human inhabitants. This starkly beautiful land is on the frontline of climate change with dramatic and visible changes over the last decade making it the fastest warming place on earth.

The last eight years have been the hottest on record as climate change becomes ever more tangible.

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Climate Change: A Global Challenge

During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from the mothers, sold to childless couples using forged documentation. The Catholic Church is implicated in these terrible crimes.

Franco's Spain and the Catholic Church

During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from their mothers and sold to childless couples using forged documentation.

Stolen Babies

The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. This film documents the extinction of species currently happening around the world. But it also highlights hopeful initiatives as committed men and women on every continent fight to save endangered species and work towards improving biodiversity.

Mankind's Greatest Challenge

The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. 

Biodiversity or Extinction

One aspect of the war in Ukraine is being played out in the shadows. Our reporter met partisans in the Kherson region, which was occupied by Russian forces until last November. These Ukrainian civilians have set up resistance networks in Russian-occupied territories.

Our reporters met partisans in the Kherson region, which was occupied by Russian forces until last November. Ukrainian civilians there have set up resistance networks in Russian-occupied territories.

Ukraine: Resistance in Occupied Territories

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Israeli photographer Edward Kaprov went to the Donbas, to Kharkiv, Kherson and Bakhmut to cover the conflict. He chose the collodion photographic process, a technique which provided the first war photography, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), to document today’s conflict. The Polka Magazine competition made this reportage possible.

Israeli photographer Edward Kaprov went to the Donbas to cover the war in Ukrain using an old photographic technique used in the Crimean War.

Ukraine: A Photographer in Wartime

After a year of conflict in Ukraine, Mapping the World leaves the studio to visit the Baltic, a cold sea that is heating up with NATO-Russian tensions. Emilie Aubry goes aboard a French navy frigate to understand the challenges of this geostrategically important region.

After a year of conflict in Ukraine, Mapping the World leaves the studio to visit the Baltic, a cold sea that is heating up with NATO-Russian tensions.

24 Hours in the Baltic

Romania has greater gas resources than most European countries. With its unexploited Black Sea gas reserves, it could theoretically free itself from gas imports and start supplying neighbouring countries. But Romanian legislation is not favourable to development. Even so, an oil rig has been built of the Romanian coast which has been extracting natural gas since June 2022.

A Boon for Romania?

Could Romania's Black Sea gas fields be the answer to Europe's energy problems?

Re: Black Sea Gas

Parallel to the war in Ukraine is another conflict, between the Russian and Ukrainian orthodox churches, both present on Ukrainian soil. Father Boris is on the frontline of this religious battle for the soul of his country.

Parallel to the war in Ukraine is another conflict, between the Russian and Ukrainian orthodox churches, both present on Ukrainian soil.

Ukraine: Religious War

Since 2002, with the nationalisation of the oil industry by the Chavez government – a figureheadof Latin American socialism - Venezuela has experienced an unprecedented economic downturn, aggravated in 2006 by US sanctions. The crisis has forced people like Anibal to turn to other activities to survive, in his case fishing on the heavily polluted Lake Maracaibo.

The economic crisis in Venezuela has forced local people to turn to other activities to survive such as fishing on the heavily polluted Lake Maracaibo.

Venezuela: A Dying Lake

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot show another side of Israel. One with high-levels of social deprivation and strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s controversial judicial reforms.

Sderot - The Other Israel

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot is a different Israel with strong support for Netanjahu and high levels of social deprivation.

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years. Their sperm is smuggled out of prison to be used in IVF with their partners.

Israel-Palestine: Secret Babies of the Intifada

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years.

Since 2022; high inflation has hit Sri Lanka badly. The price of some vegetables has doubled amid a food crisis. The policy of converting to organic farming has failed leading to a catastrophic drop in yields.

Sri Lanka: Food Crisis

The price of some vegetables has doubled amid a food crisis as high inflation has hit Sri Lanka badly: 

When Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

Some 30 countries in the world are facing a cholera epidemic and a shortage of vaccines. The World Health Organisation views this resurgence as worrying. In Malawi, the situation is particularly bad with the outbreak the deadliest in the country’s history.

Cholera in Malawi

In Malawi, the cholera outbreak is the deadliest in the country’s history.

On 13 September 2022, the Azerbaijani army launched a full-scale offensive against southern Armenia, leaving more than 300 dead and nearly 10,000 displaced on the Armenian side. In this reportage, a legendary character guides us through a never-ending conflict. Gilbert Minassian, an Armenian from Marseille, has been fighting for thirty years.

Armenia: the Colonel's Four Wars

Gilbert Minassian, an Armenian from Marseille, has been fighting for thirty years to protect his country.

Thirty years after the war that tore Yugoslavia apart, could the three main states that emerged, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, build closer relations? And could the Franco-German  example serve as a model?

Former Yugoslavia: Reconciliation in sight?

Thirty years after the war that tore Yugoslavia apart, could Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia build closer relations?

Beijing finally gave in to protests: As Chinese people wanted to regain their freedom all restrictions have been lifted and life has returned to normal. But now a massive wave of COVID-19 infections has swept through China.

China: Lockdown to Chaos

With restrictions lifted in China, a massive wave of covid has swept through the country.

The self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, separating from Georgia in the early 1990s, is a tiny state on the Black Sea recognised by only a handful of states.

Abkhazia: Russian or Georgian?

Argentina has extremely high inflation and high levels of poverty, with children affected most. But doctor Rubén Sosa, the kite-flying paediatrician, offers hope in his child-friendly practice in Buenos Aires.

Argentina: The Kite Doctor

China, the very first country hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, is also the last to lift restrictions. Chinese residents have spent much of 2022 in repeated, strict lockdowns to curb the circulation of the virus. For the most time in years, a protest movement critical of the CPP has sprung to life: protesters are angry that the rest of the world has got back to normal while they have to live as though it's still 2020.

China: One Lockdown Too Many

China, the very first country hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, is also the last to lift restrictions.

In Khartoum an anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021, becoming an icon of the protest movement in Sudan.

Sudan: Spiderman - Hero of the Resistance

An anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021 in Khartoum.

Russians long considered Armenia an unimportant vassal that could easily be brought back into line if the Kremlin choose to do so. In an ironic twist of fate, it is now this little neighbour that many Russians now turn to for asylum. Russia's youth and well-off middle-class rejects Moscow's politics and fear being drafted into fighting a war they don't believe in. 

Armenia: Russian Refuge

Russia always looked down on Armenia, but now Russian asylum-seekers are turning to Yerevan for help.

Ivory Coast has a pesticides problem. Farmers use chemicals that are banned in Europe in unregulated mixtures, and wearing little to no PPE. They say they have no choice. Cocoa prices have fallen and to meet the shortfall, yields have to go up for farmers to make a living. 

Ivory Coast: Toxic Africa

Farmers use chemicals that are banned in Europe in unregulated mixtures, and wearing little to no PPE.

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