ARTE TV Shows

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TAPE is the program that rewinds a certain history of music in 3 minutes flat, and tells neophyte ears anecdotes from specialists, sometimes funny, absurd, but always essential. T...

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November 1947. The United Nations votes the partition plan for Palestine. For some, it is a dream becoming reality; for others, it is the beginning of a catastrophe. Seventy years ...

At the age of 35, Hector happens to meet his childhood love Louise and falls in love with her all over again. But there's a big problem. He's gay and has been in a loving relations...

Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination....

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Rookie cop Chloé, a new arrival to French Guiana, investigates the ritualistic double murder of a French couple and their missing son....

Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who, for that reason alone, but for m...

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Two children at a crime scene. One is guilty; the other, a witness. 25 years later, one is trying to forget, while the second one will never be able to....

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These are the stories of those who lived through Hitler's Germany. They are the lucky who survived to tell their stories, whether they were persecuted Jews or the Reich's harassed ...

The story, from 1600 to the present day, of the ruthless competition between Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (UK) and New York (USA) for world trade supremacy, as great minds blaze...

Thanks to science, after five years of coma, Florian has his mind transferred into another's body. Now he has to hide his identity, living as an officer with BATI, the anti-transfe...

Taken by an asian dictatorship in order to direct a "King Kong" remake to the glory of the regime, a depressed director (Jonathan Lambert) is about to rediscover the taste for crea...

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Crime lurks in the Saarland. Thankfully, Detective Judith Mohn and her colleague Freddy are always on hand to apprehend criminals of every kind. In their first case, the murder of ...

In the spring of 1798, Napoleon set out with 38,000 men and 10,000 sailors to conquer Egypt....

The story of Anarchism. By going back over the key events of the last two centuries of social history, the series reveals the origins and destiny of a political trend that has been...

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Discover Europe in all its diversity of viewpoints...

At the outset of the Yalta Conference on February 4, 1945, the «Big Three» were all optimistic: victory was in no doubt, and the accord that they had achieved seemed likely to pres...

When a boatload of cannabis belonging to Moroccan drug lord El Feo is hijacked, the robbery has repercussions stretching across three countries....

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Our History is no more than a series of incredible events. From the birth of a thousand-year-old empire to the death of a flourishing civilization, from the creative genius of a ha...

Based on original animation and selected iconographies throughout art history, this series of twenty episodes tells the Greek myths. An all-picture creation, which features the fas...

A young woman mysteriously inherits the house across the street from a man unknown to her who died twenty years prior. When she moves in, she discovers a sinister labyrinth inside ...

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The economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is...

Filming a daring romance movie, an award-winning actor and an ambitious newcomer lose track of where acting ends and their real desire begins....

Jesus of Nazareth, the founding figure of Christianity, is also an exceptional character in the Koran. Why? In what way? A deep investigation around the world exploring the rise of...

At the height of the Cold War in 1960, André Merlaux joins the French Secret Service and contends with enemies both foreign and bureaucratic....

Professor Moustache and his assistant Nathanaël go the extra mile to answer your questions scientifically. Do we really eat spiders in our sleep? Can we shrink children just like i...

Renowned pianist Philippe Kessler is preparing for an important recital. But recently, sounds and images seem deformed around him, as if one reality was superimposed on another. Wo...

A quiet community is devastated by the murder of a teenage supporter during a local football match....

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Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo-liberalism", capitalism is ...

Sacred mountains, biodiverse reef areas, or active volcanoes – in Asia's national parks, people and animals often share the same habitat. But how can this fragile ecological balanc...

A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France....

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, most people thought the conflict would be over by Christmas; they could not imagine how wrong they were. An attack in Sarajevo ended up becomi...

After going before the judge for the third time, 15-year old Manon is placed in a reform centre for six months. Challenged by her own uncontrollable temper, and the bureaucracy of ...

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The sovereign Greek island of Ithaca, 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have come home victorious. Only one man is missing: the king of It...

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Five very different students navigate life at the Capuchin seminary, facing tough questions of faith under the guidance of a freethinking priest....

We are 40,000 BC ... The planet seems to obey the laws of natural selection. Any? No: a valley still holds to evolution!...