Movies: Cnrs Images
- 2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
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An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the wel...
- 2017
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth (2017)
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Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this ar...
- 2018
700 Sharks (2018)
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Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during the full moon of June 2014 (Le mystère mérou) in the southern pass of the Polynesian atoll of Fakarava, where he discovered a pack of over seven hundr...
- 2019
The Blob: A Genius without a Brain (2019)
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This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob....
- 1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) (1974)
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In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for t...
- 1972
Horendi (1972)
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The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer to a ganandi, literally 'to make dance' This film concerns two women whom the zima [priest] had diag...
- 2014
Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ? (2014)
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- 2019
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace6.22019HD
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be t...
- 2020
Et si la Terre était unique ? (2020)
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- 1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel) (1968)
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Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain "water from the sky but not fire from the sky", is organized, with Sorko priests, ritual musicians and ...
- 2012
The Mystery of Dark Matter (2012)
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Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it is. This breath-taking thriller leads us to the dawn of a scientific and metaphysical revolution, akin...
- 1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen (1977)
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Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls are covered with paintings depicting the different phases of creation. A little further on, in a cave...
- 2013
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)
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Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in South Africa in a fisherman's net. This species bears witness to an evolutionary bifurcation 380 mill...
- 2011
Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth (2011)
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From her birth in Warsaw to her entry into the Pantheon, Marie Curie's work and career is a myth. Honored throughout the world and embodying a model of excellence, its history and life remain unknown in France. An intimate portrait of an exceptional ...
- 1994
Germaine chez elle (1994)
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In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of the 1930s....
- 1971
Drums from the Past (1971)
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"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries which surpass the conventional documentary format. Just as frightening and fascinating as "Les maîtres...
- 1996
Germaine et ses copains (1996)
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In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a half-blind old man. She recounts her memories of a past party at which Amadigné worked with her as an ...
- 2018
Kurdistan: The Untold Story of Mesopotamia (2018)
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In Iraqi Kurdistan, a region that has not yet been explored, a formidable archaeological adventure is taking place where scientific knowledge is the answer to oblivion....
- 2006
Beyond the Ocean (2006)
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Journey of an african migrant through Europe....
- 2012
Fabriquer le vivant (2012)
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