Nyckelord French History

Abel Gances mastodontfilm var tänkt att skildra hela Napoleon Bonapartes liv i en film om sex delar. Endast första delen blev klar, den tog fyra år att göra och är över fem timmar lång. Filmens historia slutar 1797 när Napoleon invaderar Italien. I filmen använder Gance många för tiden nya filmisk grepp. Till exempel placerades en handhållen kamera på hästar och vagnar och i slutet av filmen visades tre filmprojektioner bredvid varandra. Filmen betraktas tillsammans med D.W. Griffiths "Intolerance" och Erich von Stroheims "Greed" som ett av stumfilmsepokens mästerverk.

Dramatisering av en ökänd incident i fransk historia som benämns Bartolomeinatten: Marguerite de Valois samtycker till ett arrangerat äktenskap med Henrik av Navarra för att befästa partnerskapet mellan protestanter och katoliker. Men istället bryter kaos och våldsamheter ut.

Paris, Frankrike, under första världskriget. Medan tusentals soldater dör varje dag på slagfälten ger Henri Landru, en till synes respektabel möbelhandlare, gift och far till fyra barn, obevekligt näring åt sin egen olycksbådande dödsfabrik.

Det är 1700-tal, och en ung flicka och hennes föräldralösa adoptivsyster åker från landsbygden in till Paris. Adoptivsystern är blind, men en läkare i staden kan bota henne. De råkar dock in i olika förvecklingar på vägen, och skiljs från varandra. Olika maktspel håller dem isär, och mitt i alltihop bryter den franska revolutionen ut.

The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.

Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.

North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and finally overthrow the foundations of the colonial regime established by France in 1830.

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime, established in the south of France and headed by Marshal Pétain, and Nazi Germany.

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and Henry V. It gave France a national heroine in Joan of Arc. But, even now, the jury is out as to its causes and outcome. Was it the final swansong of a redundant knightly class whose only reason for being was to fight? Was it a battle over ever more important territory to the emerging economies of England and France? Or was it the painful birth of two distinct national identities, forged through their long and violent divorce? Dr Janina Ramirez guides us through the stories of kings, great knights, bloody battles and cultural triumphs of this momentous conflict.

A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geography of Europe and sowed the seeds of a deep antagonism between France and Germany that culminated in two world wars. Excerpts from the diaries of the witnesses, photographs and painted panoramas tell the truth about a forgotten war.