1. Chairman for Life
China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he commands the world’s attention, but who is China’s strongman and what is his agenda?
2. The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts
Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world's leading historians as being at the very centre of the vision for a new world order that emerges from the League of Nations and the United Nations.. Yet, he is virtually persona non grata in his own country.... and largely ignored in school history books.</p><p> This one hour drama-documentary, with its dramatised cameo scenes in which his look-alike grandson takes on the role of Jan Smuts, battle re-enactments, historical archival footage, comments from historians, political analysts, and South African political struggle heroes, looks back on his life and the circumstances that shaped it in search of some answers.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
3. Spain: The First Globalization (España: la primera globalización)
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs and the discovery of America , as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
It has an average vote of 7.818 on TMDB.
4. Plas Gwynant
Follow a group of boys as they learn forestry, map reading, camping, canoeing and rock climbing.
5. Big Data, Big Brother (George Orwell, Aldous Huxley : « 1984 » ou « Le Meilleur des mondes » ?)
The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley , the genius authors of the two most groundbreaking novels of anticipation of the 20th century: 1984 and Brave New World; two lucid witnesses of the maledictions of the modern world whose novels have found a considerable echo with our time.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
6. Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (Blackbox Syrien - Der schmutzige Krieg)
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
7. Decoupling 脱钩 (脱钩)
A "Chinese" father reflects on the changing relationship of China and US during his trip to Beijing to retrieve his 3-year-old "American" daughter who has been stranded because of the recent "decoupling" of the two countries. Born in China and living in the American Midwest, filmmaker Yinan Wang attempts to unpack his own experience of how a transnational migrant family deals with the distress caused by identity, nationalism, and geopolitics.
8. Beyond Utopia
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.
It has an average vote of 8.061 on TMDB.
9. The Long Breakup
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Panic in the baltic (Panique en mer Baltique)
After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic was viewed almost as a quiet backwater. A nice place to visit to see charming Hanseatic cities and sandy beaches. But since the war in Ukraine the Baltic sea, bordered by eight European Union countries as well as Russia, has become a hot spot of world geopolitics. And tensions are high.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
11. Asie-Pacifique - la nouvelle poudrière (Asie-Pacifique - la nouvelle poudrière)
As soon as he came to power in 2012, Xi Jinping clearly stated his ambition for a national renaissance. He will combine this with the construction of a powerful army and a certain vision of Chinese territory, which includes the reunification of Taiwan. In this quest, control of the oceans has become a crucial issue, and America an obstacle. In the South China Sea and the Pacific, the Chinese Communist Party has been pursuing a strategy to undermine American influence for the past decade. Relying on the active participation of maritime militias - fishermen trained by the military - China is creating a grey area between war and peace that destabilizes both its neighbors and the world's leading military power.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. The World According to Gazprom (Le Monde Selon Gazprom)
Gazprom, an industrial and financial conglomerate created in 1992, is the key weapon in the Kremlin's geopolitical strategy. First producer of natural gas, Russia indeed holds a third of the world's total reserves. Responsible for producing, distributing and selling it, Gazprom is a company like no other, where gas market professionals work, but also ministers, deputies and advisers close to the Russian president. It was during the winter of 2005-2006 that Europe, which buys 30% of its gas from Russia, suddenly became aware of its vulnerability. Comment ? Overnight, Russia had just cut gas supplies to the pro-Western Ukraine of Viktor Lushchenko, who refused to pay tariffs multiplied by five. Since then, the continuous rise in oil prices, coupled with ever-increasing Chinese demand, has confirmed the key role that its hydrocarbons give to Russia.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
13. Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land
A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter struggle between Arab and Jew for control of the Holy Land has caused untold suffering in the Middle East for generations. It is often claimed that the crisis originated with Jewish emigration to Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel. Yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in British double-dealing during the First World War. This is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to Arab and Jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the Middle East.
14. Poutine, le retour de l'ours dans la danse (Poutine, le retour de l'ours dans la danse)
After twenty years in power, Vladimir Putin continues to implement his geopolitical strategy with Russia’s comeback on the big stage of world politics. He already announced his ambitions in 2007 – and still, it seems like the western governments were hit completely unprepared. What is behind this repeat of the Cold War?
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
15. Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - L'Europe s'interroge - dvd 1 (Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - L'Europe s'interroge - dvd 1)
(Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - L'Europe s'interroge - dvd 1)
16. Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Les nouveaux visages de l'économie mondiale - dvd 2 (Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Les nouveaux visages de l'économie mondiale - dvd 2)
(Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Les nouveaux visages de l'économie mondiale - dvd 2)
17. Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Un monde sous tension - dvd 3 (Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Un monde sous tension - dvd 3)
(Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Un monde sous tension - dvd 3)
18. Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Cartographier le monde - dvd 5 (Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Cartographier le monde - dvd 5)
(Le dessous des cartes - volume 4 - Cartographier le monde - dvd 5)
19. In the Grip of Gazprom (Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe)
The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
20. Netanyahu at War
The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces Netanyahu's rise to power and his high-stakes fight with the president over Iran's nuclear program.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.