Fictions - Historical Drama

In 1944, in Vaucluse, Mother Madeleine runs a religious institution for deaf and hard of hearing children, "La Providence", where she secretly takes in Jewish children in order to save them from the German threat.

At the age of eight, Toussaint Louverture witnesses his father, an elderly slave, thrown into the waters of the port of Cap, deemed unproductive.

Paris, July 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille and the onset of the Revolution. The Reign of Terror is in full swing. Amidst this world of violence, one nearly unchanging constant remains: women have no rights.

The story of a forbidden yet intense passion during the Liberation, between a young woman whose husband is a prisoner in Germany, and a black GI who arrives to help her father-in-law with the harvest.

When on May 2, 1923 Clémenceau met Marguerite Baldensperger, he was 82 years old, she was 41.. Between them, the alchemy is immediate. And Clémenceau offers Marguerite this Faustian pact "I will help you to live, you will help me to die".

Based on a true story Paris, 1942. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future looks bright. But the deportation of the Jews from France will turn around their destiny.

Summer 1483, in Touraine. A horseman arrives at the castle where Louis XI resides. He reveals to the king the existence of a conspiracy: his ministers plan to assassinate him that same day, during the council. The old king then tries to thwart the plot...

From 1963 until the present day, families from the French overseas territories have confronted unique destinies, between their homelands and mainland France.

Ten years after the liberation of Paris, 10 former Resistants, who were members of the same network, are invited by Marie-Hélène Dumoulin, known by her pseudonyme Marie-Octobre.

Love affairs, jealousies, intrigues, betrayals and secrets of state... all the elements of great drama are to be found in this historical thriller, the story of how the young and ambitious Marquis de Cinq-Mars seduces King Louis XIII and betrays his protector, Cardinal Richelieu, the most powerful man in the realm, for the love of a scheming duchess.

In the 50s, Esther, a young woman in love with the French culture, finally realizes her dream: to move to Paris.

Au début des années soixante, Kader, bientôt rejoint par sa femme Myriam, fait partie de la première génération d’immigrés algériens. Très vite, le couple est pris, comme tant d’autres, entre le rêve de retourner au pays, et celui de prospérer sur une terre d’accueil, pas toujours très accueillante…

En 1944, Madame Berthe, patronne d’une maison close, doit fuir Lyon avec ses pensionnaires, car le frère de l’une d’elles fait partie de la résistance et a caché des munitions dans la cave de la maison. En Isère, victimes d’un accident de voiture, elles sont obligées de se faire héberger dans un couvent, où elles découvrent que la mère supérieure cache des juifs dans les caves...

Juin 1940. Trois chasseurs alpins français en guerre, trois communistes italiens en fuite, deux rabbins polonais et trois luxembourgeois perdus dans les tourmentes de la débâcle doivent cohabiter dans un fort d’altitude à la frontière franco-italienne.

France, 1911. Louise Perreau is struggling financially to raise her 10-year-old son Gaston. The prospect of a new job in Paris brings her the hope of a better life. She has to enrol her son at Les Vermiraux, where children are supposed to get a good education.

January 1943. France is under occupation. Louise is 70, and in her bar everyone likes to forget about the war. The militiamen at the counter are customers like anyone else, and no one complains that her meals depend on black-market produce. Her serenity is disturbed, however, by a cry for help from an English airman who falls from the sky... just like an angel.

The strangest things happen in the Rochevilles' manor house, with its cursed bedroom and walls that speak... In its time it has been a place of protection, condemnation and also punishment.

1860. Mister Perrichon is the epitome of bourgeois respectability: a rich shopkeeper, vain and smug, brimming with social ambition but with morals that adapt to circumstances. He retires from business and, to mark the occasion, takes his  wife and daughter Henriette on a trip to Mont-Blanc.

1934. Philippe falls in love with Odile, a beautiful stranger, and decides to marry her, against the will of his parents.

The ghosts of World War Two return when Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, is found in Argentina. Franck Jourdan, a special correspondent with a French political magazine, dives into this investigation with passion, determined to see Paul Touvier condemned for crimes against humanity.

The disaster which occured in Courrières in 1906 claiming the lives of more than 1100 miners.

In the 1970s, a home on the outskirts of Paris took in teenage mothers

A young watchmaker falls head over heels with a mysterious young woman.

Martinique, 1942. Rose, a young teacher, is dismissed by the Vichy regime of Admiral Robert. Disgusted at her treatment, and starved by the British blockade, she wants to escape with the young dissidents.

1914. Louis is a 27-year-old reservist and patriot, as is his childhood friend and longtime rival Bastien, who sees the war, like everything else, as an opportunity.

The love story between the French actress Arletty and the German officer Hans Jürgen Soehring during the occupation of France by Germany.

In the mid-19th century, two doctors with very different methods are competing in the field of mental disease, what will one day be known as psychiatry.

21:07 GMT, somewhere in the English Channel: a supertanker, the “Magnificent”, runs aground on the Casquets reef.

The history of Franco-German Klarsfeld couple who devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals and bring them in front of Justice.

Northern Nigeria. Two French scientists working for an environmental NGO disappear during a mission in the region of Arlit.

Nadia, an army doctor based in Afghanistan, is ambushed and captured by the Taliban.

France 1943. Two pretty and different girls, Alice and Lisette, 17, are torn from their families by the Nazis and, along with many other Alsacians, sent to labor in Germany.

A story of friendship and closeness, a tale of courage and broken dreams.

Spring 1981. France is in the middle of the presidential election campaign, and Chirac has just betrayed Giscard by standing for election.

At the beginning of the 20th century, in a France divided between Catholics and Republicans, Marie, a young Republican and believer teacher, is appointed at the head of the village public school.

Albert Camus, a life - Camus seen through women's eyes. From The Rebel to The First Man and The Fall, the last ten years of Albert Camus's turbulent life.

Algeria. Benjamin, Kateb and Antoine are three teenagers from three religious backgrounds who never should have met. But they share the same passion for football and the same disregard for the disapproving looks which their unusual friendship draws.

In 1914 Théophile Maupas, a countryside teacher, is called up. From the trenches he writes long letters to his wife Blanche, who is also a teacher. In early March 1915, she hears that Theo has been shot.

In 1945, "cigarette camps" were set up in Normandy to provide rest and recreation for American soldiers back from the front and their wives.

An outraged Voltaire invents public opinion to denounce a miscarriage of justice to the whole of Europe...

June 1914. In the small village where he lives, twelve-year-old Momo is his parents' pride and joy. War breaks out and his father Maurice is mobilised, leaving his wife and son to run the farm.

In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while their impoverished mothers had to go to work in factories, refuge rooms were put in place in some towns...

The extraordinary life of Marguerite Steinheil, also known as ''the Red Widow

A woman discovers that her granddaughter who disappeared when she was a baby is still alive...

In the late 19th century, Dr Pierre Adelaide, a doctor from the French West Indies, arrives in a Charente village to take over from a colleague...

1870. France declares war on Prussia. The Barbier family from Versailles confidently wait for the war to start ...

Algeria. May 1st 1962. The war has been over for two months. But following secret agreements, de Gaulle continues to conduct nuclear tests in the Sahara desert.

October, 2006. Anna Politkovskaya, a russian journalist, is murdered in the hall of her Moscow building.

It's 1973, and the Lip watch-making factory in Besançon is experiencing hard times. The director has resigned and there is no more cash. The only person showing any interest in the company is a corporate raider.

The series recounts Fouquet’s inexorable rise, his financial acumen, his success with women, the building of his château, Vaux-le-Vicomte, which prefigured Versailles, and his struggle with Colbert, who brought about his downfall and left him to rot in in a gloomy, remote fortress.

A flamboyant drama that opposes a father to his daughters in a war for power that he has himself initiated.

Six friends in their twenties meet each other in a Resistance network in 1944.

The lives in a sugarcane plant in from 1785 to 1810 in French Antilles.