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Many objects are part of our daily lives, yet how they work can seem like magic to us. Through experiments and playful explanations, this popular science series shows us that mathematics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetic waves or microbiology are simpler to understand than they may seem. 

Science Made Simple

Many scientific discoveries and inventions are much simpler to understand than they may seem. 

Eureka!

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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.

Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead with pigtails and freckles, conquers the world of classical ballet. The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character from the Villa Villekulla for the Helsinki opera house. The ballet music is the work of Georg Riedel and Stefan Nilsson.

The superhumanly strong redhead returns

Pippi Longstocking

Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. Some species, such as sharks, which are able to sense the change in atmospheric pressure of a coming hurricane, move away from danger. Others learn to live with it, such as curlews, which use the hot ash from erupting volcanoes in Papua New Guinea to incubate their eggs. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

How Animals and Plants Survive

Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

Natural Disasters

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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

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.

ARTE Reportage

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

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

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

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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Our European neighbours’ views on current political and social issues.

The European Collection

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Climate Crisis Solutions

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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

Aquile di San Martino is the oldest mountaineering association in the Dolomites. Rocco is the oldest and most experienced active guide, and young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training. They are out on their last expedition before Livio is a fully-fledged 'aquile' - an eagle of the mountains. 

GEO Reportage

Young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training, and has just one last expedition to complete

Mountaineering in the Dolomites

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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Juana wants to explore her sexuality, and she won't let her wheelchair get in the way.

4 Feet High

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The best live productions from across Europe

Opera

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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.

Making History

Séraphine de Senlis is one of the most important French painters of naïve painting. She was an uneducated woman who earned a living as a cleaning lady. But one day a vision from God told her to pick up a paint brush. Entirely self-taught, from then on she painted incessantly until her mental illness took over. She died in 1942 in a mental hospital.

Séraphine de Senlis was an uneducated cleaning woman until one day a vision from God told her to start painting

Séraphine de Senlis, The Painter's Delirium

The speeches of the likes of Martin Luther King or Churchill are rooted in the struggles of their time; but the words are eternal. 

The speeches of the likes of Martin Luther King or Churchill are rooted in the struggles of their time; but the words are eternal

Great Speeches in History

The Marchioness Casati was admired throughout Europe for her incredible parties and expensive tastes. She was an eccentric patron of the arts, and her face appears again and again in the works of all the notable painters of her day. But she would rip through her inheritance by the age of fifty and end up wondering the streets of London, going though rubbish bins.

The Marchioness Casati went from living in a palace to eking out an existence on the streets of London

Luisa Casati, the Ruined Marchioness

A light-hearted look at stories of conflict in international affairs from the Crimean crisis, North Korean nuclear threats and Trump's ever-present tweets.

A light-hearted look at stories of conflict in international affairs from the Crimean crisis to Northern Ireland, North Korean nuclear threats to Donald Trump..

Stories of Conflict

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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

The Emerald Isle

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Art-House Documentaries

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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

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.