L'École du pouvoir 2009

Napoleon (2002)

7 /10

A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 30` . Year(s): 2002

Director: Yves Simoneau , Max Gallo

Producer: Jean-Pierre Guérin , Ron Devillier , David Rogers

Stars: Christian Clavier , John Malkovich , Gérard Depardieu , Anouk Aimée , Heino Ferch , Sebastian Koch

Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)

0 /10

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

Average Episode Run Time: 42` . Year(s): 2009

Director: Isabelle Clarke , Daniel Costelle , Henri de Turenne

Producer: Louis Vaudeville

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz , Dwight D. Eisenhower , Adolf Hitler , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Charles de Gaulle , Heinrich Himmler

Dates That Made History (2018 - 2020)

8.7 /10

Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.

Average Episode Run Time: 27` . Year(s): 2018 - 2020

Director: Pascal Goblot , Florence Tran , Jean-Christophe Ribot

Stars: Patrick Boucheron

Spin (2012 - 2016)

7.3 /10

The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no doubt that Philip Deleuvre, the prime minister, will run for the Elysee. But what few people know is that the leader of the government knows more things he claimed. This state causes lie back to business Kapita Simon, a former communications adviser (spin doctor) of the late president. Anxious to preserve the honor of his deceased friend and some form of political ethics, the man of the shadows has now set a goal: to find a candidate who will be able to beat Deleuvre.

Average Episode Run Time: 52` . Year(s): 2012 - 2016

Director: Frédéric Garson , Frédéric Tellier , Emmanuel Daucé

Stars: Marianne Fabbro , Bruno Wolkowitch , Nicolas Marié , Philippe Magnan , Grégory Fitoussi , Yves Pignot

The Real War of Thrones (2017 - 2022)

0 /10

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

Average Episode Run Time: 52` . Year(s): 2017 - 2022

Stars: Bruno Solo , Vincent Desprat , Fabian Wolfrom , Marion Trémontels , Franck Libert , Maxime d'Aboville

39-45 en sol canadien (2021)

8 /10

Claude Legault heads to places infused with memories, wonderful reminders of the country's unsung role during World War II, to gather touching, human and often unimaginable stories about Canada's participation and the people who lived through it.

Average Episode Run Time: 48` . Year(s): 2021

Stars: Claude Legault

No Man's Land (2020)

7.9 /10

Dive into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look on the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world.

Average Episode Run Time: 46` . Year(s): 2020

Director: Oded Ruskin , Maria Feldman , Ron Leshem

Stars: Félix Moati , Mélanie Thierry , Souheila Yacoub , James Floyd , Joe Ben Ayed , James Purefoy

Totems (2022)

0 /10

Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…

Average Episode Run Time: 52` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Olivier Dujols , Juliette Soubrier

Stars: Niels Schneider , Vera Kolesnikova , José Garcia , Lambert Wilson , Ana Girardot , Aleksey Guskov

Women at War (2022)

0 /10

France, 1914. The destinies of four women intersect : Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute, Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory, Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist nurse.

Average Episode Run Time: 52` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Alexandre Laurent , Cécile Lorne , Camille Treiner

Producer: Alexandre Laurent

Stars: Camille Lou , Audrey Fleurot , Julie de Bona , Sofia Essaïdi , Marie Mallia , Tom Leeb

Marie Antoinette (2022)

0 /10

Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

Average Episode Run Time: 53` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Geoffrey Enthoven , Pete Travis , Deborah Davis

Producer: Stéphanie Chartreux , Laurent Cavalier , Christophe Toulemonde

Stars: Emilia Schüle , Louis Cunningham , Jack Archer , Oscar Lesage , Jasmine Blackborow , Marthe Keller

Apocalypse: World War I (2014)

8.8 /10

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

Average Episode Run Time: 52` . Year(s): 2014

Director: Isabelle Clarke , Daniel Costelle

Producer: Louis Vaudeville

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz , Winston Churchill , Grand Duchess Anastasia , Woodrow Wilson , Archduke Franz Ferdinand , Manfred von Richthofen

Carlos (2010)

9.1 /10

The story of the Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez known as "Carlos", who was, for almost twenty years, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 52` . Year(s): 2010

Director: Olivier Assayas , Daniel LeConte

Stars: Edgar Ramírez , Alexander Scheer , Nora Waldstätten , Alejandro Arroyo , Ahmad Kaabour , Talal Jurdi