catalogue
L2i - the two infinities
Since that man thinks, he tried to understand and dominate the elements, to organize chaos, to channel energy. For 70 years, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), covering all fields of science of the infinitely large to the infinitely small, accompanies him in his conquest of...
Ladybird case (The)
The Ladybird seduced man by its beauty and greed against aphids that eat his vegetable garden. It is the icon of biological control not to mention the sympathy engendered by her curves and bright colors. This documentary tales this history the other way around, with humor: considering the...
Lascaux, sky of the first men (The)
On the dark walls of their caves, 17,000 years ago, they have traced the early history of the sky and its stars. The amazing birth of prehistoric astronomy ... And if Lascaux, the Sistine Chapel of prehistory, was originally a temple dedicated to the constellations...
Libya, the Last Frontier
The most important archaeological site ever found in the Sahara, dating back 6000 years, was found in the Desert of Messak, south-west Libya. French archaeologist Jean-Louis Le Quellec made this discovery while accompanying an expedition led by geophysicists in search of oil. A unique prehistoric...
Life force - Madagascar
Madagascar is an island like no other. Lying 400 kilometres off the coast of Africa, it’s often referred to as the “seventh continent”. Every corner of Madagascar is inhabited by lemurs – a unique primate found nowhere else on the planet. Foraging in the dark of night, the gremlin-like...
Life in Hell - Survivors of Darkness
In these environments, micro-organisms rule. Certain animals have strange adaptations such as skin that is totally white or even transparent. Others are blind. Scientists are studying how these species manage to survive with so little oxygen, food and light in the most inhospitable caves on the...
Life in hell - survivors of salt and acid
Some species are perfectly adapted to live in conditions that would be lethal to the vast majority of other organisms. Scientists have baptized them extremophiles, that love extreme conditions. They are found mainly in the most uninhabitable places and especially in large saline lakes and rivers...
Light Bulb Conspiracy (The)
Does the ever-lasting light bulb really exist? How can a computer chip ‘kill’ a product? Why are millions of computers shipped round the world to be dumped rather than repaired? How did two artists from New York start a popular revolt on the internet which resulted in the life span of millions...
Lightning Reloaded!
Spiral clouds of steel blue and ink black, miles-long bolts of lightning, which for a moment appear to cast a spider's web across the sky. Lightning is beautiful, frightening and much more than heavy weather: recent research data indicate that heavy storms and lightning in Africa are generating the...
Linguists (The)
David and Greg are "The Linguists": scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists’ resolve is tested by the very forces stifling languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. David and Greg must overcome...
Living in weightlessness
It is difficult to conduct experiments in space, but it exists on Earth, a way to experience weightlessness: an Airbus, which falls freely toward the ground at a speed compensating for the effects of the force of gravity. Each year, the European Space Agency is organizing a campaign of so-called...
Living with robots
Robots are everywhere. They build our cars, entertain our kids and clean our floors. And as they continue to creep into our lives with ever-greater capabilities and intelligence, they will fundamentally rewrite our relationship with machines. “Living with Robots” takes us to the world’s...
Lofoten, thrust into the fiords
In Norway, the Lofoten archipelago is strikingly beautiful. It looks like Polynesian islands lost in the cold and snow. Located in the northern region of the most rugged coastline in the world, its rocky coastline dotted with fishing villages that live in much of the inshore cod. The Arctic region...
Love Hate and Everything In Between
Man’s capacity for kindness and compassion is overshadowed only by his ability to be as cruel and destructive. Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed? "Love Hate and Everything in Between" looks into the world of...
Lucie tells the history of science: the media
Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. From smoke signals of Indian-Americans to email, man has always tried to share information with the others.
Lucie tells the history of science: water and wind
Lucie the firefly, likeable character animation, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. How did man tame these elements over the centuries and why these two energies it became necessary.
Mémoires d'un bébé (Les)
The twentieth century was the century of the baby: doctors, demographers, psychoanalysts, teachers and publicists all cooed over his crib. Inseparable from the customs and movements of his time, the baby is inextricably intertwined with history of which he is a very endearing witness.
Madagascar mystery
Exploration and adventure in Madagascar's unexplored Tsingy rock formations.
Madagascar, a Tree Top Odyssey
The gigantic inflatable research station for studying the canopy is off again on an expedition on the island of Madagascar. About fifty scientists from around the world meet at the top of the trees in one of the last virgin forests of our planet, to conduct in-depth research on the extremely rich...
Magic of motion (The)
Scientists are now seeking to observe the movement of animals in the water, on land or in the air, to implement mechanisms to their machines, thereby maximizing the energy.
Malaria, the silent bloodbath
500 million persons affected by the disease. More than 2 millions deaths a year with 90% in Africa. The malaria is one of the first causes of death in sub-saharan Africa. One child of five still dies from this disease that we considered, one time, eradicated. Shooted in Kenya,...
Man of the Glaciers
How did Claude Lorius study the "memories of the ice"? The effects of climate change will have a profound impact on the life of our planet and constitutes in the long run a threat to the survival of the human race. The name of one man in particular is linked to this discovery, that of Claude...
Man with the golden cells (The)
Since the discovery of their immense therapeutic promise, the cells have become an essential resource for medical research. They have acquired an economic value, and are subject to investment and comercial trade. A market that shakes our ethical positions. This film is part of the exemplary...
Marie Curie, beyond the Myth
From her birth in Varsaw until she entered the Pantheon, the works and life of Marie Curie are like a myth. While she has been honored in the entire world and embodies a model of excellence, her story and her life remain unknown. In order to celebrate this amazing woman of science, and on...
Mars rising: search for life
After discovering the presence of water on Mars, space agencies from around the world have launched a formidable challenge: to send men to explore Mars. Today the countdown of this adventure without precedent in the history of humanity is raised ... We're heading for Mars!
Maud Fontenoy, Against the Current
29-year-old Maud Fontenoy is not an usual adventurer. She's the first woman to have rowed her way entirely across the Atlantic from America to Europe. This accomplished sportswoman has been sailing since she was a little girl, and has earned recognition in both swimming and horse-riding...
Meeting Henri Atlan
There are lives dedicated to a great work, others going through a thousand paths. Henri Atlan put his at the confluence of medicine, philosophy, science and religion. Humanist doctor, biologist recognized philosopher, longtime member of the Ethics Committee, talmudist... Henri Atlan is all at once....
Men in Danger
Sperm production in humans has suffered a spectacular drop (by 50% in 50 years), there has been a dramatic rise in the number of testicular cancers as well as in the number of congenital malformations in male reproductive organs… For Niels Skakkebaek, Danish doctor and researcher, "the male...
Mermaids' tears: oceans of plastic (The)
Oceans are rapidly becoming the world's rubbish dump. Every kilometer of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A plastic soup of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In the Netherlands, scientists...
Mice and men
The influence of new technologies on communications and employment.
Mini Darwin on Galápagos: Evolution in the words of children
During an expedition on the Galápagos islands, seven children follow Charles Darwin’s tracks to repeat his observations and experiments in a playful and didactic way and discover the evolution of the species through natural selection. By observing the geology of the volcanic archipelago, the...
Missing: The Incredible Journey of M. de La Perouse
In 1785, Captain Lapérouse leaves with 200 men for the most ambitious scientific expedition ever undertaken, three years later, they disappear in the Pacific. In 2003, an expedition of French researchers passionate attempts to trace these scholars.
Money & Speed: Inside the blackbox
Film screened in French at the festival On the 6th of May 2010, the American stock markets plunged by almost 10% in only 20 minutes. By reconstructing this mysterious “flash crash”, Money and Speed uncovers a world of computer driven financial markets in which profit or loss are determined...
Monks in laboratories
Buddhists have been stydiing the mind, without any tool, for 2,500 years. They have developed techniques of meditation to sustain attention and transform the emotions. Scientists are now facing issues as ancient as those pratices, ignored for a long time. What are emotions? What is mind?
Mont Blanc, Europe
In 1892, a water pocket, hidden in the center of the Tête Rousse glacier in the Alps, burst open, sweeping several villages away and causing 175 deaths. Scientists are still unable to detect these water pockets inside glaciers. Now that global warming is affecting the Alpine ecosystem, they are...
Mont Saint-Michel, a nutritive bay
The bay of Mont Saint-Michel is home to life in its greatest diversity, but here the man threatens biodiversity.
Moon: the great impact
September 2007, the Japanese space agency put in orbit, Kaguya, named after the Japanese goddess of the moon. This satellite is a marvel of technology with sophisticated analytical instruments and an HD camera that will shoot the moon with incredible accuracy. For one year, 100 kilometers above the...
Mount St. Helens
Landscapes tell stories, if we know how to listen, and that's what scientists have been doing at Mount St. Helens ever since the catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980 - listening, watching, and learning. And what they learned was radically different from what they had expected. In 1980 it seemed...
Mr CO2
It’s invisible but quantifiable, more than 2,500 scientists throughout the world are analyzing the consequences of its intrusive existence and thousands are working on solutions to catch it, to reduce it or to suppress it at the source. By denouncing the role carbon dioxide is playing in global...
Music Instinct: Science & Song (The)
The power of music: The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism--and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos--is moved by the undeniable effect of music. This follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads...
My friend the grass-snake
Taming your fears, learn about animals only different but not so bad, a first step towards respect. How does a snake move? Why does it pull its tongue? Does it really have cool blood?
My Jule Verne
This film is a tribute to Jules Verne, the great universal writer, and the people who love adventure, risk, and dream.
Mysteries of Clipperton (The)
A ring of coral lost in the Pacific. The most isolated atoll on earth. Clipperton, tiny French territory off the coast of Mexico, remains a scientific mystery. How did life manage to take root here? Which species have developed ? Doctor Jean-Louis Etienne fulfils a lifelong dream by organizing a...
Mysteries of Kyys, the chamane (The)
In 2006, Eric Crubezy, anthropologist and forensic scientific discovered an ancient tomb with exceptional remains: one of the most well-preserved tomb ever discovered in Siberia. A woman was lying in a wooden casket surrounding by offerings, and that woman was a shaman... Her body was enveloped in...
Mysteries of the Canopy (The)
The treetop raft, a huge inflatable device for exploring and studying the canopy, heads to the island of Madagascar for an exciting expedition. Fiftysome researchers gather together to carry out an indepth study of the flora and fauna of this exceptional region. The scientists initiate us into the...
Naïca, the crystal cave
In the depths of a silver mine in Naica, Mexico, one of nature’s greatest wonders was discovered only a few years ago: an immense cave containing a forest of gigantic crystals, the largest in the world. Yet the cave is as beautiful as it is deadly. Its atmosphere is alike boiling water, making...
Nano revolution: more than human?
By mastering the construction of devices on the scale of atoms and molecules, nanotechnologies promise to revolutionize many areas of our lives. In medicine, after only fifteen years of research, the first “nano” products are making their appearance. Some are already commercialized, while...
Nano, next dimension
Our planet on which we are increasingly cramped, could again become immeasurably greater if we go to another dimension, reaching the size of a billionth of a meter, a nanometer.
Nanoworld or Abyss
Do you know what is a carbon nanotube? No? So don’t hesitate and follow the young curious citizen who leads this film as an inquest in order to discover and understand the invisible world of the nanotcchnologies and sciences. Nanosciences and technologies are touching a whole of...
Nature Tech (3)
When technology is inspired by the genius of nature, we talk about bionic science. In this film scientists try to create artificial leaves capable of producing hydrogen from solar energy.