Pin-up models, a century of fantasies

French documentary on the history of pin-up models.

The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although it is included in the filmography of Alice Guy-Blaché.

FRANCE 98 La Coupe du monde du Siècle

Origins of the 21st Century

Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wa

John Von Neumann: Prophet of the 21st Century

Unknown to most, John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician, impacted and shaped much of the 20th and 21st centuries. Meet the inspiration for two legendary characters, Dr. Strangelove and HAL.

Décembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècle

Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.

Victor Hugo, un siècle en révolutions

Notre-Dame de Paris, le chantier du siècle

L'A1 : Le Chantier du siècle

L'anxiété, au 21e siècle

A film that mixes fiction and reality to talk about anxiety, a crucial subject today. The premise of the film is that psychological distress among young people has tripled since the beginning of the pandemic.

Le Défilé du Siècle : les plus belles voitures du monde

Oil Spill of The Century

In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker loaded with 220,000 tons of petrol, ran aground in Brittany, France. The accident caused the biggest oil spill France has ever known and is still today known as one of the 20th cen

Le Bourget : Un siècle d'aviation

Spa Francorchamps - Un siècle d'histoires

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German n

Oscar Niemeyer, an architect commited to his century

The testimony of an artist who continues to believe in the socialist ideal. The story of a man who loves women.

General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle

"GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle is a humorous, informative and ultimately poignant documentary about General Idea. Formed in 1969, they produced art that targeted and mimicked media, consumerism and celebr

An Up-to-Date Conjurer

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Henry Ford, l'inventeur du siècle américain

Le suaire de Turin, une relique pour le XXe siècle