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Polyphonic, global and surprising: Re-examining history from new perspectives.

2,700 years from the invention of coins to cryptocurrencies: The history of money.

November 1945. The world turned to the German city of Nuremberg for the trial of the century. 

The turbulent history of the people that work the land, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day.

The myth of Monaco: from a remote fishing village to one of the richest countries in the world.

From antiquity to the present day, the story of two thousand years of intolerance and persecution against Jews.

From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

This documentary explores a little-known chapter of World War II: French volunteers who fought for the Third Reich.

Triads, Chinese mafia organisations, are brutal criminal cartels and economic powerhouses, now going global.

Meet the heroes and gods of Greek mythology with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey full of passion, power-play, rivalry and divine wrath.

From the fall of the Qing dynasty up to the era of Xi Jinping, the history of modern China.

Four-part documentary series telling the story of the French Resistance through the experiences of thirty heroic men and women.

July 1936. A military coup triggers a bloody civil war in Spain which will claim 400,000 lives and forever change the country.

This is the story of one of Europe's biggest migrations; one of people fleeing poverty or persecution and hoping for a better life. 

Archaeologists in Nigeria are studying the remains of little-understood civilisations and unearthing their treasures.

A moving series tracing the cataclysm of the Great War through the destinies of eight individuals.

Chile 1973: Socialist President Allende is overthrown in a bloody military coup. It is the end of the dream of a fairer society. 50 years later, ARTE commemorates these dramatic events with The Battle for Chile. Patricio Guzmàn's trilogy is a moving testimony to the times and a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking.

In November 1942, Germany takes control of the French zone libre as the allied armies make gains in North Africa.

Between 1941 and 1945 around 30,000 French citizens voluntarily joined the German army and engaged in terrible war crimes. 

The series that looks at 10 places with complicated and absurd borders.