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Recognisable by their distinctive snout, Tapirs were once common across North and South America. Today these beautiful mammals are threatened with extinction as humans encroach on their habitat. But in Costa Rica and Nicaragua biologists are devoting their lives to save the species.

In Costa Rica and Nicaragua biologists are devoting their lives to saving this peculiar species.

Tapirs: Gardener of the Rainforest

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Want to get your groove on? You've come to the right place. Whatever music you’re into ARTE Concert invites you to KeepOnDancing!

#KeepOnDancing

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

Meet two of Poland's oldest hippies: Juliusz (92) and Krystof (77) have been living on the shores of Lake Solina, in almost total isolation and surrounded by nature and animals, for decades. But life in the middle of nowhere is increasingly hard on their aging bodies. 

Meet two of Poland's oldest hippies: Juliusz (92) and Krystof (77)

Re: An Unconventional Retirement

Discovering the Arabian peninsula in all its variety from glistening modern cities to the traditional way of life.

Unknown Arabia

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.

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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 Almost Everything

Carolyn Carlson and her company bid farewell to each other in a final creation. On the Chaillot theatre stage in Paris, the legendary choreographer and performer presents The Tree (Fragments of poetics on fire), an ode to nature and the elements.

Théâtre de Chaillot

The legendary American choreographer presents The Tree (Fragments of poetics on fire), an ode to nature and the elements.

Carolyn Carlson's The Tree

Quote, copy, destroy, reinvent... What better way to dive into the teeming world of contemporary art than to follow, from artist to artist, the reappropriations of great masterpieces? From Manet to 2Fik, from Géricault to Hu Jieming, or from Klein to Philippe Ramette, it's time to review your classics and get to grips with the mysteries of modern art!

How Artists Talk Back to Each Other

What better way to dive into contemporary art than to follow the reappropriations of great masterpieces?

ARTJACKING!

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

This documentary tells the story of German Expressionism in the context of colonial exploitation for the first time. When German artists Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein travelled to what was then the colony of German New Guinea and the Palau Islands in 1910, they wanted to revolutionise painting through inspiration from indigenous art and peoples. But their "South Sea paradise" had already been destroyed by the European colonial masters and their art would reveal the ideals and prejudice of early twentieth century Europe.

Expressionism and Colonialism

Telling the story of German Expressionist art for the first time in the context of colonial exploitation. 

The White Gaze

A look at the history and foundations of the five great religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Who is the god Ganesh? What is the difference between halal and kosher? And what distinguishes Catholics and Protestants?

Religion for Beginners

A look at the history and foundations of the five great religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. 

Divinity

What if our lives were governed by the supernatural? Why do so many people feel the urge to connect with gods, angels and energies? The occult doesn't have a great reputation, but how bad is it really? In this episode, Jan searches for answers to his metaphysical doubts.

Streetphilosophy

What if our lives were governed by the supernatural?

The Occult: is the Supernatural a Natural Part of Life?

Eight up and coming female rap artists from around the world tell their story and share their music.

Women in Rap

Girlhood

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are shaped by the wind and are in perpetual movement. These extraordinary landscapes made of infinite grains of sand are ephemeral and inhospitable. Yet the environment they offer is astonishingly diverse.

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are in perpetual movement, creating extraordinary ephemeral landscapes.

Dunes: Europe's Moving Landscapes

Juana, a 17-year-old wheelchair user from Argentina, wants to explore her sexuality. At her new high school, she will experience friendship and failure, fear and political agitation as she tries to find her way in the world and build a sense of herself. This series is accompanied by a 360/VR experience available on our youtube channel ARTE.tv Documentary.

Juana is back in Cordoba after many years of absence. She wants to lose her virginity and she won’t let her wheelchair get in the way.

Four Feet High

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn performs live from his new album, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

ARTE Concert Festival 2021

Damon Albarn

Large festivals consume huge amounts of power and produce the same amount of rubbish as a small town. The situation is so alarming that the band Coldplay announced that they would no longer go on tour until there was a sustainable way of performing, and in the mean time, are experimenting with holograms. But is that also feasible for indie musicians? How can music go green?

Tracks

Large festivals consume huge amounts of power and produce the same amount of rubbish as a small town

Pop Music and Climate Change

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Researcher Natalia Romik is looking for the secret hiding places of Warsaw where Jewish people hid to avoid deportation. She discovers the stories of survivors, hidden in old oak trees or cemeteries, doing what they can to stay alive.

Secret Hiding Places of the Warsaw Ghetto

Re: Surviving the Holocaust

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

Documentaries on the horror of the Nazi period and its reverberations to this day.

Nazism and the Holocaust

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Southern Italy holds the record for unemployed women: barely 29% of Sicilian women have a job. This is due to the lack of childcare facilities and conservative attitudes about the role of women. Financial dependence on a spouse can have dramatic consequences when the relationship becomes abusive.

Re:Women of Sicily in Revolt

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

The Turow open cast mine in Poland, lying on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic, is threatened with closure. The Poles want to keep the mine open to protect local jobs whereas the neighbouring Czech and German towns and villages worry how the huge coal mine is affecting the groundwater and their houses.

The Turow open cast mine in Poland, lying on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic, is threatened with closure.

Re: Trouble in Turow

Lowriding is a passion for cars where owners customise their vintage vehicles to look cool gliding along the Los Angeles boulevards. For long a male-only pursuit, more and more women are getting into it lowriding.

Geo Reportage

Crazy about cars, these owners customise their vintage vehicles to look cool gliding along the Los Angeles boulevards.

Lowriders of Los Angeles

Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting foreign influence and from Iran in particular? What does the future hold for the Kurdish autonomous region? And will the USA ever really leave?

Mapping the World

Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting influence from foreign powers, and from Iran in particular? 

Iraq - A Sovereign Country?

Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. In search of a new beginning, they decided to start a new life in the Chernobyl region, close to the exclusion zone from the 1986 nuclear disaster. The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war.

Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine to start a new life in the Chernobyl region. The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war for them.

Re: New Beginning in Chernobyl

For a decade now Ukrainian women have been paid to carry other people’s babies. For childless couples in Europe, these surrogate mothers represent their last hope for parenthood.

Surrogate Mothers in Ukraine

With nearly 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, India is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 destroyed entire families and is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

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The second wave swept through India in Spring 2021 and is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

India: Covid Orphans

Europe's farmers must slash the use of their pesticides by half, by 2030. But due to these increasingly stricter requirements, farmers feel vulnerable to unfair competition, as producers outside of the EU can carry on using chemicals now barred in Europe. Some desperate farmers have taken to importing chemicals illegally, sometimes buying dangerous counterfeits.

As EU farmers reduce their use of pesticides to meet new regulations, an illicit trade in chemicals has sprung up

Re: Illegal Pesticides

In northwest Albania Afghan refugees have been welcomed not in an overcrowded camp surrounded by barbed wire but in luxury hotels by the beach.

Albania: A Refugee Paradise?

Every year around 8,000 ethnic Germans from Russia emigrate to Germany, like the Kotchevnikov family from near Kaliningrad. Fitting in is not always easy for these Germans who may not speak the language.

Migrating to your Own Country

Every year around 8,000 ethnic Germans from Russia emigrate to Germany, like the Kotchevnikov family from near Kaliningrad.

Re: Russian Germans

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

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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The district of Manshiet Nasser is the largest ragpicker area in Cairo. It accepts nearly half of the city's waste, and its patchwork of cottage industries and 'mom-and-pop' shops are suprisingly effective.

One neighbourhood in Cairo sorts through and recycles half of all the city's waste

Egypt: Rags and Riches

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

The Indian state of Sikkim has banned pesticides completely, allowing only organic farming. The results: healthy food and healthy soils.

India: Sikkim - A Green New World

Fawzia Koofi is an extraordinary woman: the only female party leader in Afghanistan and also the country's first female MP. Since the Taliban's return to power, she has been forced to continue her fight for women’s rights in exile.

Since the Taliban's return to power, Fawzia Koofi has been forced to continue her fight for women’s rights in exile.

A Feminist and the Taliban

The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

Khartoum, autumn 2021: The Sudanese capital has been in turmoil since General Burhan ousted the civilian government in a coup. Sara, 23, a leftist student, has participated in all the struggles of the Sudanese revolution.

Khartoum, autumn 2021: The Sudanese capital has been in turmoil since General Burhan ousted the civilian government in a coup. 

Sudan: Women in Revolt

Venezuelans have been living through a deep economic crisis for several years with food shortages coupled with hyperinflation. Press freedom is also in peril as the government cracks down on independent media. But some young journalists are going offline, giving news reports live from city buses.

Desperate to provide independent news, some young journalists are giving news bulletins offline on board city buses.

Venezuela: Desperate for News

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.

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.

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico is one of the windiest areas in the world. It has become the Eldorado of the large multinational European electricity companies. EDF already owns three wind farms comprising several hundred wind turbines lined up as far as the eye can see. But locals aren't happy.

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec has attracted European electricity multinationals. But locals aren't happy

Mexico: Winds of Anger

Abdul fled Afghanistan six years ago and found asylum in France. In the course of his journey during which he crossed twelve countries over two years, he developed a passion for photography. In Calais he is documenting the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel to Britain, in the hope of a better life.

In Calais Abdul documents the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel in hope of a better life.

An Afghan Refugee in Calais

La Colifata radio station broadcasts from a famous mental hospital in the Argentinian capital and it’s the patients themselves that present the shows. The station is the brainchild of psychologist Alfredo Oivera to give marginal people a voice.

La Colifata radio station broadcasts from a famous mental hospital in the Argentinian capital and it’s the patients themselves that present the shows.

Argentina's Radio Crazy

Indonesia is famous for its rich mineral deposits that attract mining companies the world over. But mining is notoriously bad for the environment, using up water and destroying vast swathes of natural habitat. And on top of the legal mining companies, are the scores of small scale, illegal miners who work in dangerous conditions. 

Indonesia's stunning natural landscape is being blighted by mining - but Europe needs those minerals for its computers and mobile phones

Indonesia: The Cost of Illegal Mining

Almost 10 years ago, Turkey opened its doors wide to more than 3 million Syrian refugees. But for those Afghans who fled the Taliban to power this summer and are trying to cross into Turkey, the welcome couldn't be more different.

After Turkey welcomed more than 3 million Syrian refugees, Afghans are not welcome

Turkey: Afghan Refugees Not Welcome

Russian communists dream of rising as a credible alternative to Putin and his United Russia party. With 160,000 members today, it is still a long way from its former size before its collapse in 1991. Modern day communists style themselves as the party that denounces social inequalities and Russia's nouveau riche, while renouncing old school communism such as tight economic controls.

Communism in Russia is staging a comeback, as disappointment over Putin's United Russia party grows.

Russia: Communist Comeback

Cameroon, a Central African country of 27 million inhabitants, has been spared the worst of the coronavirus crisis. It's only had around 100,000 cases and less than 2000 deaths. That's an incidence rate 50 times lower than that of European countries. But herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished. 

Herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished in Cameroon

Cameroon: Anti-Covid Witches

Idlib is already weakened by a decade of war, but now its residents must also face the devastation of the coronavirus. In this overcrowded enclave, social distancing is impossible. One in two people here live in camps, and humanitarian aid is trickling across the border. The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away.

The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away

Syria: Idlib Battered by the Delta Variant

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.

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

In Alaska, in the city of Nome, Etta Tall longs to be reunited with her family. They're in Russia, where they've been ever since the border closed in 1948. This is the story of one Iniut community, and two very different countries.

American Inuit Etta longs to be reunited with her Russian Inuit family. But the border closed decades ago

Russia/USA: Behind the Ice Curtain

In July 2021, riots and looting in South Africa's Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces left more than 300 dead, and extensive damage. The unrest didn't spread to the rest of the country, but it brought questions of ongoing inequality and racial justice to the fore. One team of neighbourhood volunteers think they have the answer.

 One team of neighbourhood volunteers think they have the answer

South Africa: Segregation, 30 Years After Apartheid

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

Independence and Partition

Irish History

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

Jesus looms large in the Qur'an, which may surprise many Christians. He's a central figure, but a very different one from the son of God found in the Bible. 

In Islam, Jesus is a central figure, but a very different one to Jesus Christ, son of God

Jesus and Islam

ARTE’s landmark series on the history of religion, produced in 2003. In ten episodes this programme tells how Christianity emerged between the death of Jesus around 30 CE and 150 CE. How did the crucifixion act as a starting point for the irreversible separation between Jews and Christians?

An analysis of how Christianity emerged between the death of Jesus circa 30 CE and 150 CE. How did the crucifixion act as a starting point for the irreversible separation between Jews and Christians?

The Birth of Christianity

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

The Lost Ones are stories of people who were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their individual fates give insight into big, dramatic events in world history.

The Lost Ones are stories of people who were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Historians explain the fascinating history of objects: Documents, materials, devices or clothes, everything has a tale to tell.

Historians reveal the fascinating history of objects: Documents, materials, devices or clothes, everything has a tale to tell.

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Tapirs: Gardener of the Rainforest

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#KeepOnDancing

#KeepOnDancing

Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

ME/CFS – A Misunderstood Illness

Re: An Unconventional Retirement

Re: An Unconventional Retirement

Unknown Arabia

Unknown Arabia

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24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

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42 – The Answer to Almost Everything

Carolyn Carlson's The Tree

ARTJACKING!

Satoshi

The White Gaze

Divinity

The Occult: is the Supernatural a Natural Part of Life?

Girlhood