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This three-part documentary follows the career of a German sporting icon. Franz Beckenbauer, perhaps the greatest footballer who ever lived was, was born in 1945 into the ruins of post-war West Germany. Nicknamed der Kaiser (the emperor), his story mirrors that of his country, as he developed into a star and became an unofficial ambassador for the federal republic.

This three-part documentary follows the career of Franz Beckenbauer, perhaps the greatest footballer who ever lived.

Beckenbauer: The Last Emperor

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A legendary concert by the electrifying Michael Hutchence and his bandmates, the Farriss brothers, recorded at Wembley in 1991, and fully restored to sound and image.

Michael Hutchence and Co. perform at Wembley in 1991

A legendary concert by the electrifying Michael Hutchence and his bandmates, the Farriss brothers, recorded at Wembley in 1991.

INXS

Joachim Roncin is the artist behind the iconic black and white image ‘Je Suis Charlie’. He was in the middle of an editorial meeting at Stylist when alerts started to come through: a fellow magazine, Charlie Hebdo, had been wiped out in a bloody massacre. Joachim’s image captured the pain of a nation.

10 years since Charlie Hebdo attacks: the genesis of #jesuischarlie

Joachim Roncin was behind the iconic black and white ‘Je Suis Charlie’ graphic that captured a nation's pain

Domino Effect

In a post-war Neapolitan village, Carmela and Antonio’s love is tested by economic hardships and strict dowry expectations. Renato Castellani’s final installment of his trilogy paints a lively yet tender portrait of Italy’s working class. This optimistic neo-realist tale captures the resilience of romance and the enduring hope of humble folk in the face of adversity.

Classic Italian cinema from Renato Castellani

In a post-war village, love and poverty collide as a couple struggles to overcome dowry demands.

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s remarkable new staging of Richard Strauss’s Salome tells a very dark tale. Asmik Grigorian shines in the title role of Salome, whose craving for autonomy and revenge takes a fateful turn. Streamed live on ARTE Concert, this performance of the opera from the Staatsoper Hamburg under the baton Kent Nagano promises to be thrilling theatre.

Richard Strauss' Salome at Staatsoper Hamburg

Asmik Grigorian in Salome: An unforgettable night at the Staatsoper Hamburg.

Richard Strauss: Salome

What do we need to live a happy life? Follow Ronja von Rönne, author and self-proclaimed sceptic, as she explores this age-old question by meeting people with fascinating or surprising answers. A unique insight into the different mindsets and strategies that people employ to find happiness.

The search for contentment: Finding happiness in 2025 

What do we need to live a happy life? A unique insight into the quest for happiness with author Ronja von Rönne.

Unhappy

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The Cure are pop outsiders. Over a fifty year career, the English band have released 14 studio albums to great acclaim but it was their 1989 album Disintegration, released during a pivotal year in Europe and the world, which would capture the imagination of so many fans. This documentary tells the story of this landmark work of art in the history of popular music.

An Album, A Band, A Generation

The story of The Cure's 1989 album, a landmark work of art in a pivotal year in history.

Disintegration

Giacomo Puccini was a musical genius and gave the world some of the most beautiful and memorable operas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as La Bohème, Madam Butterfly and Turandot. His famous arias have delighted fans the world over. His vocal writing for the female voice is especially remarkable with complex female characters taking the lead in many of the Italian composer’s works.

Tragedy and Beauty

TThe Italian musical genius wrote operas with complex female characters and remarkable vocal writing.

Puccini's Heroines

A new space race has begun that threatens world peace and security as private companies and nation states rush to colonise the skies with satellites. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has already sent 3,000 satellites into orbit to provide internet connections anywhere on earth. This gives Musk considerable geopolitical clout and pushes China and Europe to join the race.

A new space race is on as private companies and nation states rush to colonise the skies with satellites.

Satellite Wars

All societies are based on a social contract. In a meritocracy, hard work is supposed to be rewarded. But what happens when this social contract is broken?

 Breaking Social looks at the rule breakers: people who use tax havens to hoard wealth and reap profits without paying back to society. Looking at movements from around the world, including Chile and Malta, this thought-provoking documentary looks at global patterns of kleptocracy and how people are organising themselves to fight back against injustice.

What happens when the social contract is broken?

In a meritocracy, hard work is supposed to be rewarded. But what happens when this social contract is broken?

Breaking Social

Hunting with eagles is a traditional activity for the Kazakh nomads who roam over Mongolia beside the Altai Mountains. But when a 13-year-old girl catches an eagle in the territory of a neighbouring clan, she breaks an old tribal rule. In a conservative society, she is learning to train the eagle under her father’s guidance.

 A 13-year-old nomad girl in Mongolia is learning to train eagles under her father’s guidance.

Mongolia: The Way of the Eagle

J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novels hold a unique place in twentieth century English literature and are much loved by readers the world over. This documentary explores the real places in England and elsewhere that provided inspiration for Tolkien to create the world of Middle Earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

This documentary explores the real places that provided inspiration for Tolkien to create the world of Middle Earth. 

Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

A photographer and a painter hole up in a tiny cabin in the no man’s land between Russian and Finland. This wilderness, where humans seldom tread, is wolf territory. They want to observe these magnificent beasts in their natural habitat over a year.

A photographer and a painter hole up in a tiny cabin between Russian and Finland to observe a pack of wolves.

A Year Amongst Wolves

A group of friends set up a circus group in 2009 in Adelaide, Australia. Little did they know that then that it would grow to be an internationally acclaimed company performing all over the world. This documentary follows Gravity & Other Myths, who are stretching the limits of what human bodies are capable of.

Artistry from Another World

Discover the internationaly renowned circus group who are pushing the boundaries of acrobatics.

Gravity & Other Myths

Following two black artists at the Paris Opera, principal dancer Guillaume Diop and double bassist Sullivan Loiseau as they practice their art during a season at the venerable institution. How do they experience what is still a very white environment?

Diversity at the Paris Opera

Following two black artists at the Paris Opera. How do they negotiate what is still a very white environment?

Being Black in Ballet

Nothing show the authentic spirit of a city than its public transport system. Metrocosmos goes down deep in to the tunnels of underground systems of European cities to discover their soul: Berlin, Prague, Paris, Vienna, and Naples

Discovering the beating hearts of European cities through their mass transit systems.

Metrocosmos

In the age of global warming, snow, or rather the lack of it, is becoming a major issue in the northern hemisphere. Snow is crucial for mountain ecosystems with many plants depending on it for survival. This documentary shows how less snowfall is affecting plant and animal species in Europe and North America.

Snow is crucial for mountain ecosystems with many plants depending on it for survival. This documentary shows how less snowfall is affecting plant and animal species in Europe and North America.

Longing for Snow

At the Battle of Hastings William the Conqueror triumphed, changing the face of medieval Europe and the course of English history. An account of the life of this extraordinary Norman warrior who became King of England.

The story of the man that triumphed at Hastings and changed the course of English history. 

William the Conqueror

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How did the radical right reach the mainstream of American politics? This documentary shows how over forty years, an organised minority has lobbied to gain key influence in the judiciary, the media and in politics, culminating in the return of Donald Trump as presidential candidate in 2024.

How has the radical right reached the mainstream of American politics? 

USA: Rise of the Radical Right

Politics and business are no longer purely male domains. Although women are still clearly in the minority, many are rising to the top: A focus on women in powerful positions in Europe including Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, and Swedish MEP Alice Bah Kuhnke.

A focus on women in powerful positions in Europe including Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, and Swedish MEP Alice Bah Kuhnke.

Power Women of Europe

For many in Europe, fireworks are an integral part of New Year’s Eve celebrations. But with increasing concerns about the environmental, and financial, costs of putting on large displays, many municipalities are thinking about how to make fireworks less harmful and more sustainable. But could drone light-shows replace traditional fireworks in the future?

The fireworks industry is trying to be more sustainable, but could the future of fireworks displays be drone light shows?

Fireworks of the Future

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fear of a major nuclear accident has returned. Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, has been occupied by Russia since early March 2022 and the huge complex has come under fire several times. How safe can a nuclear power plant be in wartime? This documentary interviews experts and power plant workers on a very real threat.

A Nuclear Power Plant in Wartime

Europe's largest nuclear power plant has been under Russian occupation since March 2022. How safe is it in war?

Inside Zaporizhzhia

This documentary goes behind the scenes in the global fight against corporate tax evasion. In times of increasing inequality, where nation states are highly in debt, multinationals are announcing record profits. How can countries make sure that these companies pay their fair share of tax so that they can battle the effects of climate change and invest in the future?

Meet the politicians, activists and economists who are fighting against corporate tax evasion.

Tax Wars

Overlaying images of a devastated Ukraine with telephone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families, intercepted by Kyiv, this film contrasts ordinary Russians' view of the war and the dehumanisation engendered by conflict.

Intercepted telephone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families shed a different light on the Ukraine war.

Intercepted

The Glass Ceiling: What is it? And how do you break it? Finnish migrant filmmaker Mari Soppela travels the world as she takes us on a five year investigation into the complex realities of the glass ceiling. Scrutinizing the statistics and delving into the lived experiences of women battling discrimination throughout the globe she exposes the uncomfortable truths and dirty secrets of gender bias in the workplace. Simultaneously light-hearted and deadly serious, this vital, creative and surprising film shines a light on a much misunderstood phenomenon and acts as a rallying cry to women - and men - everywhere to continue the fight for gender equality.

Investigating women's experiences in the workplace

 Finnish filmmaker Mari Soppela takes us into the complex realities of gender discrimination in the workplace.

The Glass Ceiling

When she was young, Norma dreamed of a career as a dancer, but she had to give it up. Now that she's 67, she'll finally be able to fulfil her dream as part of an Edinburgh troupe exclusively for senior citizens; rehearsing a work for the Edinburgh Festival.

An Edinburgh based dance troupe’s intake is exclusively senior citizens.

Re: Never Too Old to Dance

With declining congregations across Europe, many churches are in danger of closing altogether. But what happens to churches after they shut their doors? How should these often-beautiful buildings be put to new use? A report from Germany and the Netherlands.

With declining congregations across Europe, many churches are in danger of closing altogether. 

Re: Churches for Sale

For Saudi Arabia's national holiday, Al Nassr FC made a glossy video with its top international players in traditional dress. With stars like Cristiano Ronaldo in their team, the clip went viral, a way of showing the country’s prestige on the international stage.

Football Parade in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia uses sports, and football in particular, to improve its international reputation.

The World in Images

As the organic sector industrialises to meet demand, is it still keeping its promise of animal welfare and respect to the environment? In-depth look at the organic farming model which, after a decade of non-stop growth, is now in crisis.

As the organic sector industrialises, is it still keeping its promise of respect to the environment and animal welfare?

The Crisis in Organic Farming

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Since 15 August 2021, the day the Taliban took power, women in Afghanistan have been suffering from a gender apartheid that is unique in the world. Only Radio Begum gives them hope: Radio Begum broadcasts school radio programmes by women for women, albeit under strict Taliban control.

Afghanistan: The Voice of Resistance

Radio Begum is the voice of Afghan women, an island of freedom in the land ruled by the Taliban.

ARTE Reportage

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a cartographer and activist from the Fulbe people in Chad. Land and water are becoming scarce as desertification advances in the Sahel region at a rate of 4km every year.  That's why she travels all over the country to draw maps with the people, to prevent conflict linked to depleting resources.

Chad: Mapping the Future

In Chad, participatory mapping projects are preventing conflict linked to depleting resources.

After Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, the democrats and their supporters in the state of Colorado are trying to process this defeat

USA: Democrat Blues

The democrats and their supporters in the state of Colorado are trying to process the defeat of Kamala Harris.

Hundreds of thousands have fled Lebanon since September as a result of the Israeli bombing raids, including many Syrian war refugees, who have to flee conflict again.

Syria-Lebanon: Endless Exile

In Pakistan, where infant mortality is amongst the highest in the world, an army of healthcare professionals, most of them trained by NGOs are helping pregnant women in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and rural areas to have healthy pregnancies and safe births.

Pakistan: Pregnant and in Danger

In Pakistan, an army of healthcare professionals are helping women in disadvantaged areas to have healthy pregnancies.

Between 2020 and 2022, during the fighting between Tigray and the armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea, their soldiers used sexual violence as a weapon of war: It is estimated that at least 120,000 women were raped, who are now campaigning for justice.

Tigray: Rape as a Weapon

Two women are fighting to help victims of rape during the Tigray war and make their voices heard.

A year after Javier Milei was elected president, Argentina is facing an existential crisis. The populist president is shaking the foundations of the country by revisiting the national narrative of the military dictatorship that terrorised Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Argentina: Guardians of Truth

The children of torturers of the former military dictatorship are now showing solidarity with the victims of their parents.

Together with Panama and Suriname, Bhutan is one of only three countries in the world with a negative carbon footprint. Its strictly protected forests, which cover 70% of the country, absorb three times as much carbon as it emits. But now the glacial lakes in the mountainous nation are threatening to overflow as a result of climate change.

Bhutan: Green Paradise in Danger

Together with Panama and Suriname, Bhutan is one of only three countries in the world with a negative carbon footprint.

After Trump’s resounding win in the presidential election, ARTE Reportage heads to West Virginia to find out how Trump supporters experience the final days of the campaign and the result.

USA: Inside Trump's America

A visit to West Virginia to find out how Trump supporters experience the final days of the campaign and the result.

China’s leader Xi Jinping promises prosperity for all and global leadership. But the reality is quite different: The Chinese economy is stalling with property prices falling and youth unemployment high.

China's Disillusioned Youth

Far from living the ‘Chinese Dream’ maybe young people are unemployed and disillusioned.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to contain Mpox with a new and deadly variant causing havoc.

DRC: The Mpox Epidemic

Michigan is a key swing-state in the 2024 elections and young voters could be decisive. ARTE Reportage goes in search of Generation Z in the Detroit area.

Michigan, USA: How Will Gen Z Vote?

In the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco, thousands of homeless drug addicts are in thrall to Fentanyl, an opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin. With 700 drug-related deaths every year, the Californian city is in a drug death spiral with dead bodies regularly found on the street.

USA: San Francisco Ravaged by Fentanyl

With 700 drug-related deaths every year, the Californian city has a huge problem with Fentanyl and other drugs.

Kosovo has a sincere admiration for the United States. When NATO intervened in 1999, a decision by President Bill Clinton, the USA was viewed as the country’s saviour in the face of Serbian aggression.

Kosovo: The American Dream

When NATO intervened in Kosovo in 1999, the USA was viewed as Kosovo's saviour in the face of Serbian aggression.

The booming goldmines in the amazon rainforest in Bolivia is causing both deforestation and causing serious health problems for the local population. They are being poisoned by mercury, used in the gold extraction process.

Bolivia: Cursed Gold

The booming goldmines in the amazon rainforest in Bolivia is causing both deforestation and causing serious health problems for the local population.

On 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh for more than 15 years, fled the country in a helicopter as mass protests led by young people and students, shook the country.

Bangladesh: The Gen Z Revolution

Mass protests led by young people and students led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Iron Lady, Sheikh Hasina.

Every day in Beirut, missiles are raining down on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, as the Israeli army seeks to destroy Hezbollah's command centres and weapons stores, hidden in the heart of a district that is home to hundreds of thousands of people.

Lebanon: A Firestorm

Every day in Beirut, Israeli missiles are raining down on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital

Yekutiel Epstein is a 17-year-old Israeli. He identifies with the views of Rabbi Meir Kahana, a radical Israeli-American whose Kach party was banned in Israel in the 1990s for racism. His ideas were marginal for a long time, but are now making a comeback, more than 30 years after his death. On the ground, on social networks and even in the Israeli parliament, Yekutiel Epstein and his far-right allies are pushing to extend Israeli sovereignty over all the occupied territories and to expel the Palestinians entirely.

Israel's Ultra Nationalist Youth

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

With dwindling water from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the Mesopotamian Marshes are drying out. Jassim Al Asadi is fighting to save this unique ecosystem, vital for local people.

Iraq: The War of Thirst

With dwindling water from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the Mesopotamian Marshes are drying out.

In 2024, India experienced the longest heatwave in its history. Temperatures soared to over 50°C in the capital, New Delhi, and up to 56°C in Nagpur, in the centre of the country.

India: Life at 50 Degrees

In 2024, India experienced the longest heatwave in its history with temperatures soared to over 50°C.

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The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over 30,000 years old, amongst the oldest in Europe. Using spectacular 3D reconstructions, this documentary film provides fascinating insights into the cave, which can only be entered once a year by a team of researchers.

Using spectacular 3D reconstructions, this documentary film provides fascinating insights into a jewel of prehistoric art.

Artists of Prehistory - The Chauvet Cave

A 19th century love triangle from Paris to St Petersburg: the French opera singer Pauline Viardot, her publicist husband Louis and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The 19th century Europe they lived through was cosmopolitan and humanist and forged the modern continent we know today.

Developed with the British historian Orlando Figes, author of The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a European Culture (Penguin 2020), the documentary powerfully evokes the shared European culture and values that this extraordinary trio helped bring into being.

From Paris to St Petersburg

An evocation of the flourishing European culture of the 19th century through a romantic love triangle fit for a novel.

A European Cultural Saga

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a breath of fresh air for many but in the chaos leading up to reunification with West Germany, the experience was also disconcerting.

Freedom and Anarchy

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. 

The Last Summer of the GDR

The incredible story of the Pope’s daughter Lucrezia Borgia takes place during one of the most scandalous periods of the Renaissance. Under the scheming rule of her father, Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia is deliberately used by him and her brother for political ends and later slandered as a poisoner and incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia?

History has depicted the daughter of Pope Alexander VI as an incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia Borgia?

The Daughter of the Pope - Lucrezia Borgia

In 1972, in Germersheim, West Germany, the second edition of the British Rock Meeting saw some of the most prestigious bands of the day take to the stage, including Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Rory Gallagher and Status Quo at an enormous gathering of the hippie generation.

The German Woodstock - Focus on the counter culture event in Germany

The 1972 British Rock Meeting was an important cultural event for the hippie generation in Germany.