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

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

Syria: Child Workers in the Oil Industry

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

Silence = Death

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

40 Years of AIDS

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

Mapping the World

How many Eastern Europes?

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

Climate Change in Romania

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

Re: Desert on the Danube?

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

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

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

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

Israel: Making (In)Roads into the West Bank

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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

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

24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

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

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

The Story of Bitcoin

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

Satoshi

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

Math is an exotic and confusing country...

Journey into Maths Country

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

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

The Dutch Ambulance Wish Foundation

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.

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What if our lives were governed by otherwordly forces?

Is the Supernatural a Natural Part of Life?

Jamie Cullum, Britain’s best-selling jazz artist, natural showman and fearless performer, made his mark with covers of Rihanna’s “Don't Stop the Music” and “Frontin'” by Pharrell Williams. This special live performance comes from Versailles’s old royal hospital, the Espace Richaud.

Jamie Cullum, Britain’s best-selling jazz artist, natural showman and fearless performer, live from Versailles’s old royal hospital, the Espace Richaud.

Jamie Cullum: piano solo

From South Africa to Morocco, Algeria to Nigeria, the breakdancing scenes of Africa is dynamic, alive and always changing.   

Bboys & Bgirls Africa

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death. The veterinarian, whose specialty was caring for cattle, had found his vocation: he opened a hedgehog refuge, now a local institution partly run by volunteers.

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death

360° Geo: A Hedgehog Shelter in Italy

In the middle of the desert, Malika has been running a tiny refreshment bar for about thirty years, where she offers tea, coffee, soft drinks, cigarettes and sometimes an omelette to passing travellers along the National Highway 1, the longest road on the African continent, linking Algiers to Tamanrasset. Alone in this cement shack, with her dog, her cat and her radio, she describes herself as the sentry of this almost uninhabited plateau. Sage or recluse, Malika lives in her own kingdom.

A Film by Hassen Ferhani

In the middle of the desert, Malika runs a tiny refreshment bar for passing travellers next to the the longest road on the African continent.

The Kingdom of Malika

From the late 1990s, Rødhåd laid the foundations for his DJ career. His perfectionist mixes of dub techno and percussive grooves earned him widespread recognition and since 2010, he has been a resident of Berlin's Berghain.
At the same time, Vril took the techno scene by storm, almost out of nowhere. As a producer, he pursues a timeless sound aesthetic that serves no trend in the genre. With his energetic live sets, he has impressed audiences across the world.
The techno giants perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum. 

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Techno giants Rødhåd and Vril perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum.

Vril & Rødhåd: "Out Of Place Artefacts"

The Berlin Palace, home of the Prussian royal family for centuries and an imposing presence on the Berlin skyline, was badly damaged by bombing in 1945. After the war the East German authorities demolished the ruins and built the Palace of the Republic, the seat of the parliament of the GDR.
After German reunification this communist-era edifice was torn down to make way for a replica of the baroque palace, finally completed and reopened to the public in June 2021. The controversial building houses the Humboldt Forum, a museum of non-European art, itself controversial in an age where the debate is raging over the restitution of art and artefacts from former European colonies.

The Humboldt Forum

Berlin controversial new (old) palace houses a controversial museum, the Humboldt Forum with its collection of non-European art.

A New Palace for Berlin

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

German Jewish Settlers in the West Bank

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

Re: Who Does the Holy Land Belong To?

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

Hungarians Leaving Home

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

Re: One Way Ticket to Berlin

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

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

Re: The CBD Revolution

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

A Scottish Animal Hospice

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

Re: For the Love of Animals

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

Re: Saving a Ukrainian Synagogue

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

Converting to Organic Farming

Re: Posh Pork

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

Re: Can Venice Be Saved from the Waves?

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

Re: Sexual Education in Poland

Since the fall of communism, Romania’s forests have been devastated, even in national parks where logging is illegal. A mix of private interests and state corruption are to blame for the deforestation which threatens biodiversity in the Carpathians.

Re: Illegal Logging in Romania

From India, Pakistan and Thailand, thousands of Asian workers toil in the plantations of southwestern Portugal. They do hard, poorly paid work, far from their families and their country, in hopes of getting Portuguese nationality. It's their passport to a better life, elsewhere in Europe.

Hoping for an EU passport

Thousands of Asian workers toil in plantations in Portugal, in hopes of getting Portuguese nationality

Re: Asian Workers in Portugal

The world economy covets Greenland’s rich deposits of raw materials, until now unexploited. Uranium mining could provide much needed employment for indigenous peoples as well as tax revenue. But the environmental cost could be heavy.

A Solution for the Future?

Re: Mining in Greenland

For a new generation of designers, "fast fashion" and disposable clothing is over! Their motto: "less is more". They are making a radical change in the fashion world by using timeless designs to produce clothing that is sustainable, and fair trade.

For a new generation of designers, "fast fashion" and disposable clothing is over! 

Re: Fashion Rebels

Patrycja and Eryc don't dare tell anyone beyond a close circle of friends that they're Jewish for fear of reprisals. Poland used to be a hub of Jewish culture, but the Holocaust devastated the community and it never recovered. Though the young couple rarely goes to the synagogue, they feel Jewish at heart. They say there is no place for them in Poland and they want to move to Israel.

Patrycja and Eryc don't dare tell anyone beyond a close circle of friends that they're Jewish for fear of reprisals

Re: Shalom, Poland

Filip Zahariev is a top chef who headed up the Gruvelageret restaurant in Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost fine-dining restaurant in the world. Now he has returned to his native Bulgaria where he wants to open up his own restaurant.

Top chef Filip Zahariev returns to his native Bulgaria to open up a fine-dining restaurant in one of Europe’s poorest regions.

Re: Top Bulgarian Chef Returns Home

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

Rewilding means returning areas to their natural state. Across Europe conservationists, local government and ordinary citizens are rethinking their impact on the environment and trying to work with nature, rather than against it.

Across Europe conservationists, local government and ordinary citizens are rethinking their impact on the environment and trying to work with nature, rather than against it.

Re: Living in Harmony with Nature

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

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

Re: Bikers vs Citizens

Italy is a leading nation when it comes to training rescue dogs. The courageous animals are able to leap from helicopters or boats to save people at sea. Ferruccio Pilenga’s training school was founded with an understanding of the potential of our four-legged friends to help save lives.

Re: Baywatch for Dogs

Nine-year-old Predag attends school in his home village of Temska in Serbia. But not for much longer, as the school is due to close in two years. It used to have almost 1,000 pupils; now there are only 18. A focus on the consequences of the rural exodus on Serbian society.

Re: School Closures in Serbia

RE: European Stories

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

ARTE Documentary Film Festival 2021

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

Bikers vs Citizens

The CBD Revolution

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

The Migrant Issue

Fortress Europe

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

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

Cyprus: Forbidden Love Island

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

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

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

In the state of Michoacan, in central-western Mexico, one of the regions hardest hit by violence linked to drug trafficking, Patricia, Teresa and Indalecio, are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones.

Patricia, Teresa, and Indalecio are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones

Mexico: The Lost Children

This documentary is a patchwork of material that gives insight into the mind of filmmaker, poet, and writer Thomas Brasch, who died twenty years ago. Material from his personal video diary, spliced with filmed interviews and archive footage of his plays, add up to a portrait of a Brasch who is strange, creative, and challenging.

This documentary is a patchwork of material that gives insight into the mind of filmmaker Thomas Brasch

BRASCH: Fear and Desire

The Brazilian president is criticised for many policies: Gun control, Amazon deforestation, policies against minorities, as well as his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A focus on Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a divided country.

A focus on Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a divided country.

Bolsonaro's Brazil

Warfare has evolved with the professionalisation of armies, the refusal of public opinion to see their soldiers sacrifice their lives in distant lands, and the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots and other drones.

21st Century Warfare

One year on from the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, the families of the victims are struggling to find out the truth and seek justice. The Lebanese government had promised an urgent investigation, but the official version of events satisfies no one: According to the authorities, the ammonium nitrate that caused the blast entered the port by mistake after a ship was damaged off the Lebanese coast and an accident in a warehouse caused the explosion.

One year on from the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, the families of the victims are struggling to find out the truth and seek justice.

Lebanon: Whose Fault Was the Beirut Explosion?

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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

Irish History

The Emerald Isle

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

An online European Film Festival

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

ArteKino Festival

ArteKino

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

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

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

TWIST

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

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

42 – The Answer to Nearly Everything

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

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

Alternative & Underground Culture

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

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

City Country Culture

Documentaries on important issues around the world, from human rights to the outcomes of elections

Stories From Around the World

Philosophical conversations hosted by Raphaël Enthoven. A different topic is debated with two experts each episode

For people who think

Philosophy

Discover Europe in all its diversity of viewpoints

Discover European society in all its diversity.

European Stories

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

The series that quenches your curiosity and puts the cult back into culture. From classical sculptures to video games, memes to Mafiosi, Gymnastics stretches the intellect by linking things that seem to have little in common.