Featuring the minute-by-minute accounts of the brave soldiers who crossed deep into enemy territory in 1942, recounting these heroic top-secret operations.
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From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.
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.
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.
During the turbulent 19th century, a number of brilliant French artists developed the Romantic movement in Paris: writers Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire, painter Eugène Delacroix and composer Hector Berlioz, among others, changed the way of looking at art and created enduring works that have inspired the world to this day.
They are among the very few survivors. 44 survivors testify. How do you get out of Auschwitz, how do you rebuild yourself? How do you talk about this ultimate experience and also how do you pass it on?
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.
After World War II, the French colonial empire, which dominated the lives of over 110 million people on five continents, collapsed in just under a quarter century of blood and tears.
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 intimate portrait of the lives of the artists, founders of modern art, who lived in Montmartre from 1900 until the liberation of France from the German yoke in 1944, near the end of World War II.
Comedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life of a common man as the show explores the story of every household and how our common man Kapil is affected by the simplest issues in life around him.
When he was a little child, Halil İbrahim lost his father due to a blood feud and was exiled to Istanbul. Twenty years later, he returns to his homeland in the Karadeniz region as a handsome, powerful young man. He plans to marry the girl he loves, Yasemin, and start a new life. However, events do not allow this. Halil İbrahim embarks on a journey of revenge, and his life will change completely when he encounters Zeynep from the Leto family.
191 dancers from all walks of life, both within and beyond China, come together to battle it out to be crowned the best dancer in China.
Quest for the Bay was a Canadian documentary television series which aired on History Television and the Public Broadcasting Service in 2002. It is the second entry of producer Jamie Brown's "Quest series", which includes Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Real West, Klondike: The Quest for Gold, and Quest for the Sea. Frank and Alana Logie, a couple who had previously participated in Pioneer Quest, made a cameo appearance during the first episode. It was the highest-rated program on History Television in 2002 and received favourable reviews from newspapers -- most notably, the Edmonton Journal. RoseAnna Schick, the sole female crew member, wrote a personal account of the journey for Manitoba History later that year. The five-part series was produced by Winnipeg-based Frantic Films and was filmed during the summer of 2001. It followed an eight-person volunteer team as they attempted to recreate the journey made by fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company during the 1840s by travelling from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. The trip covered a distance of 800 miles and took the team though the heart of the Canadian wilderness. The crew members possessed only equipment used during the period, down to their food and clothing, and included a replica of a 40-foot wooden York Boat.
Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping at her heels, Ballard must outwit both criminals and colleagues to bring long-overdue justice to the victims and their families.
A lazy brother-in-law lives with his family.
Former senior correspondent Kirsten Birgit Schiøtz Kretz Hørsholm and her unknown colleague Rasmus Bruun have taken a trip to the Danish summer to take a closer look at the growing Danish wine production. While Rasmus walks close to the Danes, Kirsten Birgit walks very close to the open flask.
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli.
The story revolves around the love that begins with hatred between Gülcemal, whom his mother abandoned and turned into a dark monster when he was young, and the beautiful Dev, who becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of fire, passion, and storm. In Gülcemal's battle with his mother, will an unexpected love or the years of hatred he has harbored prevail? Will Gülcemal, on this road full of sacrifices, turn from being a cruel hunter to prey out in the open? And what about Deva? When she finally surrenders, will she realize that this love is impossible?
Melur Untuk Firdaus is a 2022 Malaysian television drama series directed by Zamri Zakaria with a script by Wan Mahani Wan Hasan. Starring Anna Jobling, Meerqeen, Nesa Idrus, Fimie Don and many others, this series is an adaptation of the novel My Rude Wife by Cik Nor Cinta and started airing on Slot Lestary, TV3 from 27 May 2022 until 15 July 2022 replacing Do You Love Me Captain..
A treasure is hidden inside a circus. One step closer to the treasure; one step closer to danger. Ten Tigers, the gang who used to rob on the horseback, was arrested a few decades ago. A legend saying that a treasure was buried in Panyu by the Tigers pasted on ever after. An antique from the Qing Dynasty is excavated during the construction work for the expansion of the Fei Cheung Zoo in Panyu. It is later verified as part of the legendary Ten Tigers’ treasure. A foreign investor sends an archaeological professor and his grandson HO CHUNG FUNG (CHAN HO MAN, BENNY) to search for the rest of the hidden treasure in order to protect these national relics. After the news of their expedition spreads, different people get interested in the treasure...
More than a game changer in reality television, TV One's 'The Next:15' is disrupting the genre as the series breaks the "fourth wall" between the producers and the talent, revealing what happens not only on camera, but what normally happens behind it too. This docu-series follows the lives of six reality stars - Tiffany "New York" Pollard (Flavor Of Love), Claudia Jordan (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Jennifer Williams (Basketball Wives), Karamo Brown (The Real World: Philadelphia), Laura Govan (Basketball Wives: LA), and Raymond "Benzino" Scott (Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta) - whose infamous television debuts have come and gone and are all attempting to generate their next 15 minutes of fame.
Set in the early twentieth century and based on real facts, it tells the love story that led to the murder of one of the greatest Brazilian writers: Euclides da Cunha.
Northern Lights tells the story of two grieving strangers whose worlds collide on a rainy night in Dublin. Revelations, confessions, secrets, and lies envelop this darkly humorous, intimate series of hope.