Historic Programs

 

Charles Lindbergh in color

An exceptional documentary which presents, for the first time colorized archives, on Charles Lindbergh's life, the hero of the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on May 21st, 1927.

A loading aboard the Spirit of St Louis thanks to the magic of computer generated images helps us to understand what he was able to feel during his crazy crossing.

The fate of a man whose restless life reserves us many surprises: his membership in franc masonry, his relationship with the Nazi regime, his double even triple life.

Eva Braun or the Commonness of the Evil

Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke found at the NARA ( the American archives) 4 hours of films, of which the biggest part in color, turned by Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944.

It is a testimony, unprecedented, on Hitler and his first circle by the one who was his mistress before becoming his wife, for some hours only, before their suicide in the bunker. The deciphering of these films is fascinating.

In Love with Adolf Hitler

It was a strange affair, full of love, lust and despair…Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his mistress from 1932 to their double suicide in Hitler's Berlin bunker, a fateful day of April 1945.

For the first time, this extraordinary film shows Hitler in his private life, as seen through the eyes - and the camera lens - of Eva Braun, who recorded this making-of (in color!) with her own 16mm camera. It is indeed the first attempt to identify and comment the complete Eva Braun footage and thus to give a thorough account of Hitler’s intimate life.

Hunting down The Nazis

For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-backs trials and dramas, brought about principally by three extraordinary individuals - the Austrian, Simon Wiesenthal, and the German/French couple, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.

On the Alto Runway

This film makes us relive, thanks to the unknown rushes of the big American director William Wyler, an important period of the history of Corsica during the Second World War.

 The base of Alto, near Bastia, welcomed in 1944 at the same moment a group of fighters - bombers of U.S Air Force (the 57^th Fighter Group) and the famous Lafayette French group of hunting.

Day after day, the young pilots of these two units, unstuck from the runway of Alto on their P 47 Thunderbolt to attack, to bombard the German troops which, in Italy, had stopped the advance of the Allies at Monte Cassino and participated in the landing of Provence in August, 1944.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Wings of the Mind

This documentary delivers us a moving portrait of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The narrative of the life of this Jesuit and scientist of international reputation is read as an adventure novel. The scientific, religious and human epic of a big spirit of the XXth century.

8 May 1945 The Surrender

A film completely consisted of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and the events which preceded it at once. This film also shows the very strong tension between the Allies and the Soviet citizens: May 8^th is also the first day of the Cold war.

Wings of Fame

It is the epic of the heroes of the first century of the aviation, since the flight of the first plane on December 17^th, 1903 until today. A striking collection of portraits of outstanding men and women.