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J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novels hold a unique place in twentieth century English literature and are much loved by readers the world over. This documentary explores the real places in England and elsewhere that provided inspiration for Tolkien to create the world of Middle Earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

This documentary explores the real places that provided inspiration for Tolkien to create the world of Middle Earth. 

Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

In 2019, the fire in France’s most famous cathedral shocked the world with the flames visible for miles around. Five years later, the cathedral has been lovingly rebuilt and restored thanks to donations of more than 850 million euros. What does the reopening of this sacred place mean for Parisians?

A Cathedral Reborn

After 5 years of careful restoration, Notre Dame cathedral reopens to the public.

Re: Notre Dame of Paris

Overlaying images of a devastated Ukraine with telephone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families, intercepted by Kyiv, this film contrasts ordinary Russians' view of the war and the dehumanisation engendered by conflict.

Intercepted telephone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families shed a different light on the Ukraine war.

Intercepted

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

February 1993: Štrpci, Bosnia. Paramilitaries stop a passenger train and arrest civilians. Of the 500 or so passengers, only one man puts up resistance. This film tells the true story of the man who would not remain silent.

February 1993: Štrpci, Bosnia. Paramilitaries stop a passenger train and arrest civilians.

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

The Assad clan, in power for decades, has fallen in a matter of weeks. Toppled rebels led by Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani. But who is he? And what hope of peaceful coexistence for Syria’s mosaic of peoples.

Syria: After the Dictatorship

The Assad clan, in power for decades, has fallen in a matter of weeks. Toppled rebels led by Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani. But who is he? 

Mapping the World Essentials

The incredible story of the Pope’s daughter Lucrezia Borgia takes place during one of the most scandalous periods of the Renaissance. Under the scheming rule of her father, Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia is deliberately used by him and her brother for political ends and later slandered as a poisoner and incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia?

History has depicted the daughter of Pope Alexander VI as an incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia Borgia?

The Daughter of the Pope - Lucrezia Borgia

Entire generations have learned about sex through mainstream porn, blurring the lines between personal desires and platform-driven fantasies. But if our sexuality is shaped by algorithms, can’t we take back some control? The post-porn movement is doing exactly that. Aimed at creating pornography that reflects honest, consensual sex – its creators are making waves online.

Can Post-porn Awaken Our True Desires?

What if porn reflected our true desires? Post-porn aims to be more ethical, more honest and more revolutionary.

Tracks

Ireland has a severe shortage of homes with hundreds of thousands needing to be built. With rents in Dublin spiralling, many families are homeless. Jordyn, Jonathan and their daughter Delilah have no fixed address and have to look for somewhere to spend the night every day.

Since the financial crisis, Ireland has had a severe housing crisis with many families left homeless.

Re: Ireland's Housing Crisis

Amidst a brutal Athens heatwave, Eleftheria, grieving her mother and living with her pregnant sister, meets Angelos, a medical student who introduces her to the complexities of adulthood. As they explore the city's empty streets, Eleftheria confronts her emotions and the realities of first love, capturing the intense transition from adolescence into the adult world in one transformative summer.

16-year-old Eleftheria faces love and grief during a sweltering summer in Athens.

Medium

The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over 30,000 years old, amongst the oldest in Europe. Using spectacular 3D reconstructions, this documentary film provides fascinating insights into the cave, which can only be entered once a year by a team of researchers.

Using spectacular 3D reconstructions, this documentary film provides fascinating insights into a jewel of prehistoric art.

Artists of Prehistory - The Chauvet Cave

Set in Kyiv just before the fall of the Soviet Union, vivacious 17-year-old Kira navigates her crumbling family life and a nation in turmoil. As she uncovers painful truths about her father, her personal world collapses in parallel with the USSR, challenging her dreams and forcing her to confront a new reality.

Teen Kira faces personal and national upheaval in Ukraine as the Soviet Union collapses.

Do You Love Me?

Gessler’s hat became a metaphor for enforced submissive behaviour. When William Tell refuses to salute the tyrannical Governor’s hat, his punishment is to put his son’s life in danger. Rossini’s opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play, is performed in Lausanne for the first time. With Jean-Sébastien Bou in the title role and Luigi De Donato in that of the Governor.

Opéra de Lausanne

The Swiss national hero must shoot the apple off his son’s head on the stage of the Opéra de Lausanne.

Gioachino Rossini: William Tell

In Victorian London, Charles Augustus Howell, a man of mixed Portuguese-English heritage, navigates the elite art circles as John Ruskin’s secretary and a model for Rossetti. Beyond his public persona, Howell secretly engages in blackmail and art forgery, earning him a reputation as one of the city's most duplicitous figures – inspiring Arthur Conan Doyle's characterisation as the worst man in London.

Charles Augustus Howell is a Victorian art agent but also a notorious blackmailer.

The Worst Man in London

Just a few kilometres off the coast of North Korea, the South Korean islands of Yeonpyong and Baeknyeongdo are at the frontline of tensions between the two countries. Last January, 60 shells were fired by the North, leading to the evacuation of Yeongpyong. Life on the islands is tense, as fishermen can attest.

Yeonpyeong: Between Two Koreas

The South Korean islands of Yeonpyong and Baeknyeongdo are at the frontline of tensions between North and South Korea.. 

Plastic is everywhere – so much so that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But plastic damages both the environment and our health and contributes to global warming. Talks in Busan to create a global treaty on ending plastic pollution failed after negotiators clashed on the issue of cutting production. We look at whether Europe is doing its part to stem the tide of plastic.

What is the EU doing to fight plastic pollution?

After talks over a global treaty on plastic pollution failed, the EU needs to work harder to reduce our dependence on plastic.

ARTE Europe Weekly

A documentary crew filming absent civil servants encounters Haroula, a worried Greek mother searching for her missing son. When he is accused of fraud, she embarks on a chaotic journey with her disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to find him. As they traverse Athens, Haroula faces the possibility of discovering a truth about her son she may not want to know.

A mother’s search for her missing son leads to unexpected truths when he is accused of fraud.

Black Stone

Amanda, 24, has always been isolated and without friends – though it's what she longs for most. When she uncovers a forgotten childhood friendship, Amanda becomes obsessed with rekindling the bond and makes it her mission is to convince the long-lost acquaintance that they are still best friends, regardless of whether it is true or not.

Isolated and friendless, Amanda embarks on a whimsical mission to reclaim a childhood friendship.

Amanda

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a breath of fresh air for many but in the chaos leading up to reunification with West Germany, the experience was also disconcerting.

Freedom and Anarchy

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. 

The Last Summer of the GDR

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Surfing between pop, techno and krautrock, Kelly Lee Owens moves the crowd at the ARTE Concert Festival in more ways than one. Bringing material from her latest album Dreamstate, now is the chance to discover her lithe and constantly unfolding electronic universe.

ARTE Concert Festival 2024

Kelly Lee Owens brings her cerebral experimental electro to the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.

Kelly Lee Owens

Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have become amputees due to the war with Russia. The Berlin-based humanitarian organisation Life Bridge Ukraine specialises in prostheses and is training up staff to work in a future orthopaedic centre in Kyiv.

 Berlin-based Life Bridge Ukraine specialises in prostheses and is training up staff to work in a future orthopaedic centre in Kyiv.

Re: Protheses for Ukraine

After Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, the democrats and their supporters in the state of Colorado are trying to process this defeat

USA: Democrat Blues

The democrats and their supporters in the state of Colorado are trying to process the defeat of Kamala Harris.

Cheaper, greener and right on trend, 87% of Europeans already buy second-hand clothing. To be sole online, in trendy vintage shops or as rags, tons of used clothing travels around the world every day. It's a market that today is worth 128 billion euros and this will only grow with the overproduction of fast fashion. But what are the real costs to the planet and humans of the second-hand clothing market?

Is second-hand clothing really the solution to overconsumption?

Second-hand clothing: an ecological and social myth?

Some Paleolithic burials are exceptional. Dated around 25,000 BC, they are far more complex and decorative than we usually give the era credit for. Of great beauty, they also trigger the question: who were these individuals buried with so much care and adornment?

Ladies and Princes of the Paleolithic

Dated around 25,000 BC, some Paleolithic burials are complex and decorative

The Nobles of Prehistory

Nuits Sonores brings the one and only Fatboy Slim to Lyon for an unmissable show. This dance music pioneer and electro wizard is sure to get the whole town grooving to his idiosyncratic beat.

Festival Nuits Sonores 2024

90s legend Fatboy Slim gets the Nuits Sonores festival dancing.

Fatboy Slim

The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to contain Mpox with a new and deadly variant causing havoc.

DRC: The Mpox Epidemic

In 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, children, and parents before trying to kill himself in a crime that shocked France. These terrible murders captured the imagination of writer Emmanuel Carrère who spent years covering the story. His non-fiction book ‘The Adversary’ published in 2000, clearly influenced by Truman Capote’s In Cold Bloods deals with the Romand murders.

"The Adversary" by Emmanuel Carrère

The shocking murders by Jean-Claude Romand inspired writer Emmanuel Carrère to write The Adversary (2000).

The Writer and the Murderer

The global demand for sushi has fueled Malta's economy, transforming the island into a hub for bluefin tuna farming. This phenomenon not only drives local growth but also highlights the intersection of tradition, innovation and the pressures of globalised food trends.

In Malta, the increase in global demand for tuna is boosting the country's economy.

Malta at the Cutting Edge of Tuna Farming

The Way of St James, the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, is becoming ever more popular with the religious and non-religious alike. But some are not happy with the sheer numbers of people walking the camino, with numbers increasing sixfold over the last 20 years.

The pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, is becoming ever more popular.

Re: Overtourism on the Camino

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.

Avignon Festival 2024

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

Baro d'evel: Qui som?

A 19th century love triangle from Paris to St Petersburg: the French opera singer Pauline Viardot, her publicist husband Louis and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The 19th century Europe they lived through was cosmopolitan and humanist and forged the modern continent we know today.

Developed with the British historian Orlando Figes, author of The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a European Culture (Penguin 2020), the documentary powerfully evokes the shared European culture and values that this extraordinary trio helped bring into being.

From Paris to St Petersburg

An evocation of the flourishing European culture of the 19th century through a romantic love triangle fit for a novel.

A European Cultural Saga

The unforgettable actress from The Birds, Tippi Hedren denounced in her memoirs Alfred Hitchcock, the director who made her a star. From Minnesota to Hollywood, this is the story of a unique performer and free woman.

The Birds and Other Wild Animals

Unforgettable actress from The Birds, Tippi Hedren denounced in her memoirs the methods and harassment of Alfred Hitchcock, the director who made her a star. From Minnesota to Hollywood, this is the story of a unique performer.

Tippi Hedren

Russia's war against Ukraine has deepened old fault lines and created new ones in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Russians in Latvia, Hungarians in Ukraine and Serbians in Kosovo, Tracks East finds out how these national minorities are caught in the middle.

Homeless in Their Own Country

Russians in Latvia, Hungarians in Ukraine, and Serbians in Kosovo, What is life like for national minorities as tensions rise in Eastern Europe?

Tracks East

With its 155 kilometres of lines and 175 stations, the Berlin underground is the largest in Germany and transports one billion city residents and visitors a year. Some Berliners like to explore and play in this subterranean labyrinth…

With its 155 kilometres of lines and 175 stations, the Berlin underground is the largest in Germany. 

Metrocosmos Berlin

Opened the same year as the Eiffel Tower in 1889, the Moulin Rouge was a sensation from the outset with extravagant decorations, a gigantic dancefloor, and sometimes scandalous cabaret and circus shows. The world-famous venue is still going strong today with two shows a day.

The Moulin Rouge in Paris

Opened in 1889, the Moulin Rouge was a sensation from the outset with extravagant decorations and scandalous acts.

Palaces of the Night

The festive season is unthinkable without chocolate and its essential ingredient, the cocoa bean. But producers face a host of challenges, from global warming to illegal mining, not to mention pests that reduce yields. Fortunately, innovations are being tested in Ghana and Germany to save chocolate and make it fairer and more sustainable.

New ways of making chocolate in Ghana and Germany are looking to make it fairer and more sustainable.

Re: Fair and Sustainable Chocolate

This documentary looks at the history of stand up and why the punchline professionals are so popular. Episode 1: Stand up comedy has crossed national borders and language barriers. From New York to Kyiv, every city has its own scene.

Without Borders

Stand up comedy has crossed national borders and language barriers. From New York to Kyiv, every city has its own scene.

Stand Up - A Passion for Laughter

Thanks to her 1994 smash hit 'All I Want for Christmas is You', Mariah Carey is almost as Christmassy as Santa himself. The diva has managed to not only storm the charts but turn Christmas into her very own money-making machine.

TAPE

Thanks to her 1994 smash hit 'All I Want for Christmas is You', Mariah Carey is almost as Christmassy as Santa himself

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Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

China: Men without Women

Re: Notre Dame of Paris

Intercepted

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The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

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Kelly Lee Owens

Re: Protheses for Ukraine

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Second-hand clothing: an ecological and social myth?

The Nobles of Prehistory

Fatboy Slim