Playlist
<p>It’s a journey through time, 200 million years before our era, to meet astonishing marine creatures. A voyage through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods where little-known animals lived: the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, and the ferocious Mosasaurus, the marine equivalent of the famous T-Rex.</p>
<p>Faced with energy challenges, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg unite around a crazy dream: to fly using solar energy and prove that progress remains possible with clean energy. The solar plane must fly both day and night... In July 2010, it takes off, and the dream becomes reality!</p>
<p>The products of the petrochemical revolution are now found in our bodies under barbaric names: phthalates, bisphenol-A... These endocrine disruptors can cause "modern" diseases such as breast cancer and obesity. With humor and poetry, the film tells the story of humanity’s love affair with plastic comfort and household abundance.</p>
<p>This docu-fiction explores the journey of Honoré Fragonard, a surgeon, anatomist, and teacher who created the world’s first veterinary school. A genius in the preparation and preservation of bodies, the preserved specimens at the Maisons-Alfort school foreshadow the medical and scientific revolutions of the 19th century.</p>
<p>A scientific tale featuring Jules Verne's heroes and images from Inserm.</p>
<p>New Caledonia is a magical place to study biodiversity, but this environment is fragile. Mathieu Vidard investigates toxic algae contaminating fish and candy-pink mushrooms.</p>
<p>In 2009, the H1N1 virus spread across all continents. This film provides a scientific perspective on the spread and evolution of this pandemic flu. Amid media overstatements and controversies, it aims to offer insights into understanding these viral diseases that mark our century.</p>
<p>For hundreds of years, skin color was considered a marker of race. Recent scientific discoveries show it evolved based on environment and sun exposure, revealing the inconsistency of any racial discrimination.</p>
<p>CO2 is the cumbersome star of the 21st century. From Kyoto to post-Cancun, this documentary tells the saga of this invisible element, scrutinized by scientists, that influences the economy, geopolitics, and society. Consumers and producers are both dependent and responsible. What solutions remain possible?</p>
<p>Mike Hands, an English scientist, has been working for 25 years on the issue of equatorial forests burned to be converted into farmland. He fights for change and proposes solutions. But is the world ready to listen and adopt his revolutionary technique?</p>
<p>For three years, an area on the outskirts of Bordeaux has been regaining its natural state thanks to “minimal” exploitation. Late mowing, natural forest development, and extensive grazing are all processes that promote ecological biodiversity. It’s an opportunity to reflect on our relationship with nature, and our acceptance of the organic and the wild.</p>
<p>On May 6, 2010, the American markets plunged nearly 10% in just 20 minutes. By reconstructing this mysterious "Flash Crash," this film unveils a fully computerized financial world, where losses and gains occur at the speed of light. What are the consequences of granting such power to computers?</p>
<p>Are humans the only ones who laugh? We know bonobos, like us, enjoy a good laugh! What are the latest discoveries about the neural and ethological origins of laughter? A scientific exploration of this strange phenomenon.</p>
<p>An Australian scientist (2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine) co-discovered in the DNA of a humble river creature an “immortalizing” enzyme that can keep cells young forever. This film reveals the biological paradox of this enzyme and its remarkable impact on aging, stress, and cancer.</p>
<p>Girl or boy? The answer is not always so obvious. Parents, doctors, and psychologists must grapple with intersexuality… Physical appearance doesn’t always align with chromosomes. Through psychology, surgery, and interviews with intersex individuals, the film presents various approaches to this phenomenon.</p>
<p>For thirty years, work on seeds has been at the heart of change on an organic farm in Burgundy: rediscovering wild wheat varieties and passing them on to future generations. A necessary yet challenging change for this small village, far from billboards and distribution circuits.</p>
<p>IQ is one of the most shared obsessions in our world. No one escapes it. What does it really measure? These powerful letters hide troubling ideologies: IQ might be innate, meaning everything is determined at birth!</p>
<p>Is the mummified head acquired by a dealer in 1919 that of King Henry IV? The investigation, conducted over two years in France, Italy, and Germany, supported by historians and scientists, unfolds like a criminal case spanning four centuries of history.</p>
<p>What is emptiness? To answer this simple question, the film explores the limits of human perception. It demonstrates that the quantum world of the infinitesimal shaped the vast Universe we know today... That "everything" was born from "nothing."</p>
<p>Pipaluk, a young Inuit woman, worries about the accumulation of chemical residues in the Arctic plains. She investigates in Asia, South America, and Africa, tracing the sources of this global pollution that reaches the snows of Greenland.</p>
<p>Do we really know what we eat? This film examines the content of our plates, particularly by testing organic products to see if they taste better than conventional foods.</p>
<p>Five scientific teams from CNRS investigated the incredible expansion of the black rat (Rattus rattus), which has invaded 80% of the planet’s islands and profoundly transformed these fragile ecosystems. This invader drives other species to extinction.</p>
<p>Scientists study how species survive with little oxygen, food, and light in the planet's most inhospitable caves. These creatures adapt and engage in continuous exchanges with one another. A remarkable, fragile, and often unimaginable balance...</p>
<p>From her birth in Warsaw to her induction into the Panthéon, the life and work of Marie Curie are legendary. On the centenary of her Nobel Prize in 2011, the Curie Museum unveiled her archives and correspondence to rediscover the discreet and determined woman behind the myth.</p>
<p>Millions of tons of fresh water transported to the world’s driest regions… Could this dream become a reality? Using the latest 3D modeling software, international experts attempt to prove the feasibility of their project: capturing an iceberg and transporting it across the Atlantic without it melting.</p>
<p>Scientists dream of a Homo technologicus, more efficient than Homo sapiens. This is the market of human enhancement! The time has come, some say, to take it to the next level: a perfect, ageless body, an infallible brain, controlled reproduction, and ultimately, immortality. Both promising and terrifying!</p>
<p>Starting from Mendeleev’s periodic table, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of element combinations and the work of scientists attempting to “force” nature to create new ones.</p>
<p>Strange primates, lemurs have evolved in a unique place: the island of Madagascar. They have diversified into an incredibly varied group. They are not the only unusual creatures inhabiting this “continental island,” which reveals the mysteries of the evolution of these species over millennia.</p>
<p>After millions of years of tension, India, the Himalayas, and the volcanic arc of Indonesia will form the center of the next supercontinent. This is the story of what Earth was and what it will become: a new, barely recognizable world.</p>
<p>Scientifically, it is possible to imagine the gestation of a baby outside a woman's body. But can our world accept it? This film explores the biological, ethical, and psychological stakes of such a (r)evolution. So, is the artificial womb a futuristic fable or a scientific reality?</p>
<p>By delving into Pasteur's first human experiment with the rabies vaccine, the hidden side of the scientist emerges: a rough yet tender man, a warrior overwhelmed by doubt, and a revolutionary ready to do anything to impose his incredible discovery that would pave the way for modern medicine.</p>
<p>The use of the unique properties of nanoparticles opens spectacular prospects in medicine: implants, tissue regeneration, or connecting prosthetics to the nervous system. Will these possibilities only be used to correct dysfunctions, or will we succumb to the temptation of "enhancing" humans?</p>
<p>The technical means of the 21st century have unveiled the mysteries of the terracotta soldier army in Emperor Qin's mausoleum, after two millennia of dormancy. A unique archaeological discovery in the world.</p>
<p>Based on over three years of in-depth research and rarely-seen archival images, this film tells the story of planned obsolescence, from 1920 (when a cartel was formed to limit the lifespan of light bulbs) to the latest generation of electronic products.</p>
<p>This film explores the strange and wonderful world of optical illusions and reveals how they deceive us. This trickery interests scientists studying our senses and their close connections. The brain of a blind patient, for instance, can use sound to create a visual image.</p>
<p>What do we really know about cathedrals? For twenty years, researchers have worked on restoration sites. By probing the stone, glass, and iron, they’ve decoded the craftsmanship of "masters of materials." They reveal the secrets of these exceptional artisans who left us the finest testimony of their science.</p>
<p>For half a century, scientists in Russia, Germany, and the United States have explored an alternative to medication for healing: fasting. The results are surprising. Through molecular biology, Americans demonstrate the effects of fasting, opening new perspectives, including for cancer treatment.</p>
<p>For fifty years, astronomers have questioned both the origins of the Universe—the Big Bang—and the emergence of life. Are we alone in the Universe? Jean-Pierre Luminet, cosmologist, and Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist, share an unprecedented scientific adventure.</p>
<p>Brian Cox, an English scientist, visits the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii to show how something as fundamental as the size of a planet can determine life or death. Stunning imagery helps to better understand the solar system and life on Earth.</p>
<p>With moving testimonies from transplant recipients and donor families, this docu-fiction delves behind the scenes of the most thrilling medical adventure of the 20th century: the heart transplant. Who would have predicted that the heart could be replaced like a simple engine?</p>
<p>Sabine and Jamy set out to meet chemists developing equivalents to petroleum-derived products by using plants as raw materials. Can bioplastics and plant-based oils help reduce our carbon emissions?</p>
<p>Following a delivery mix-up of strange products and materials, Ursule can’t resist using them… her way.</p>
<p>Sixty-five million years ago, mammals were tiny, and dinosaurs ruled the planet. Their extinction cleared the way for a struggle among reptiles, birds, and mammals. This film traces that evolution and tells the story using CGI reconstructions.</p>
<p>Quebec likely has significant reserves of natural gas deep underground, representing an energy potential. Extracting it would require fracturing the shale rocks that trap it. Shale gas... at what cost to the environment? A journalistic investigation that stirred public opinion.</p>
<p>Why do we study math? Every student asks this! In life, few of us use it! How can we attract children to math, and what are its practical applications? Pure math researchers and users of concrete math applications (computer science, biology, finance) answer this question.</p>
<p>By emitting more and more CO2, humans are disrupting the climate and altering ocean chemistry, particularly by acidifying them. We still have little understanding of how some essential processes will be affected.</p>
<p>In Chile's Atacama Desert, widows search for the bones of loved ones, left by Pinochet's atrocities.</p>
<p>The world food system is extremely complex. Trying to comprehend how farmers in Africa are impacted by decisions we make at the grocery store in the west - and the whims of commodities traders in Chicago - can hurt the brain.</p>