Arte Movies

A peep behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katharine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in t...

A portrait of French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992),through archival films from 1964 to 1987.

In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration. If Picasso initially only had his hair cut by Ari...

Sarajevo lived through the longest siege in modern history. The Siege is a film about those who lived through it, about the human experience of the be...

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches th...

On the mythical site of Saqqara, the Apis bulls were buried for more than a thousand years in the immense underground necropolis of the Serapheum. Dis...

French documentarian Stéphanie Lamorré examines girl gangs in South Central L.A.

Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairy tales. But where do they actually come from? How much of it is truth, how much is myth? Goi...

May 8, 1945, the day of victory over Nazism, is also a day of mourning. In Algiers, thanks to demonstrations for victory, the Algerian flag appears fo...

At the archaeological site of La Roche-Cotard in Touraine, researchers have uncovered astonishing engravings. The rock drawings, which are over 60,000...

A rhapsodic drawing of life by the man who scared the life out of music players and audiences.

Since 2003, human DNA has been completely decoded. Scientists are currently working on decoding all of the body's own proteins, the so-called Proteom...