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

This documentary tells the story of the revolution in farming in post-war France and Germany.

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

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

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.

Central and eastern Europeans tell their stories of how their countries were transformed into communist states after 1945.

From cowrie shells to the first banknotes and digital currencies, this documentary series takes a critical look at how money shapes societies and determines our lives.

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.

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

Rebounds traces the eventful history of a French dance music culture that went global.

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.

Why did Ouni, the vizier of King Pepi I who ruled Egypt more than 4,200 years ago, have two tombs, at Abydos and Saqqara?

In 1956 a miracle saves the finances of the micro-state: the glamourous American star Grace Kelly.

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