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Faced with climate change, many countries have embarked on the energy transition. Since the COP21 in 2015, which set demanding targets for reducing greenhouse gases, green energies have been on the rise. The electric car has thus become the mascot of this revolution. But manufacturers remain discreet about the carbon footprint of their cars marked "zero emission". Because not only do they consume electricity that is not always clean, but they also consume rare metals such as cobalt or lithium, the extraction of which causes havoc on the other side of the world. In China, for example, champion of rare metals, in Heilongjiang province, a carpet of toxic dust covers agricultural regions.

In Colombia, the "whites" think that the Indian of Amazonia does not feel anything because there are no words in his language to express feelings. Is it possible that a whole people feel nothing and have no words to speak of love? Director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, himself a descendant of an almost extinct indigenous Colombian community, went to meet the Cácuas, to talk about their feelings, their loves, their loneliness. In doing so, he reconnected with his own Indianness. With humor and tenderness, the Cácuas try to teach him what it is to be a native. This initiatory quest is an emotional x-ray of an entire people.

Coming in all shapes and sizes, bacteria are present in every corner of the Earth. Dive into the world of Bacteria to experience the latest discoveries and scientific knowledge surrounding these plentiful and necessary microbes.

In the Fraternity of Tiberiade, a catholic community in Belgium, 40 young brothers and sisters share a life punctuated by prayer, study and manual labor.

SOS is the ultimate cry for help of a crew in distress - Royal ships, supposedly unsinkable vessels, abandoned crews, ecological disasters, unexplained disappearances, abysses and remains require additional decoding - Using the latest technologies, and with the assistance of the finest archaeologists, historians and naval engineers, this documentary series retraces, minute by minute, the exact circumstances of these disasters. The chain of events leading to the wreck is decoded at a breathtaking pace. Time is relentless and suspense awaits at every turn.

This documentary gives a full background into the world of international football (national soccer teams) and the corrupt company that controls its organisation, FIFA. World Cups go to the highest bidder and almost everyone has a price. The film gives an interview filled understanding of the world's largest corrupted sportsorganisation and how the Swiss banks are complicit in it since the 1960's.

From the Himalayas to Argentina, via Indonesia and Ethiopia, a documentary series in seven parts to discover the beauty and the immense variety of the world of bees.

A huddle with Marquesians from Nuku Hiva, the main island of the Archipelago, who speak of their island, its customs and its history with pride. Whatever they do in life, they all rely on the knowledge of the elders to question the future.

Thomas Pesquet spent 196 days in orbit around Earth. A daily routine filled with a multitude of scientific experiments intended to prepare for future missions farther afield. The French astronaut dreams of one day setting foot on Mars (2040 is the target), but innumerable scientific problems remain to be solved.

For several years, prehistorians, archaeologists and musicologists have been trying to find the moment when music was born. The art of our ancestors has long been considered exclusively visual. But discoveries have shaken these representations, in particular that of perforated bird bones resembling flutes, more than 35,000 years old, found by the archaeologist Suzanne Münzel during the 1990s in the German Jura. Exploring the caves "with their ears", acousticians have also established links between the location of cave paintings and the resonance of the walls. So many advances that encourage us to reconsider certain prehistoric objects. Seen as cereal pestles, cylinders from the Ivory Coast, since renamed "lithophones", produce a rain of crystalline notes.

For Venezuelan musician and bassist Oscar D'León, salsa is like second nature. That's why he is affectionately nicknamed The Pharaoh of Salsa. He shows us his real self with brilliance during his July 13, 2010, concert at the Zénith Paris.

The son of a carpenter, Émile Couzinet started to work as a traveling projectionist and then director of the Royan Casino. He then began to produce, direct and distribute numerous low-budget comedies, of which he was also the screenwriter.