Charles de Gaulle
Birthday: 1890-11-22
Place of Birth: Lille, France
Biography: Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.
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God Chose Paris
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspect...
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The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the to...
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1958: Those Who Said No
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b...
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the...
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De Gaulle and the Free French in World War II
In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a s...
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conques...
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Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of ...
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Cent jours
From the first minutes after his inauguration, the newly elected president wants to translate his pr...
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François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His politica...
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The Algerian War
A French historical documentary that retraces the events leading up to Algeria's war of independence...
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United We Stand
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American e...
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The Smashing of the Reich
An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, fi...
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Pétain, such a popular hero
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaborat...
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The Liberation of Paris
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944....
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Autour de Brazzaville
"The crime of the cease fire was to capitulate as if France had no empire" - Charles De Gaulle...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...
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The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
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La Rabbia
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existentia...
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Montreal Stories
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic Fren...
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
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Black Is Beltza
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque ...
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Mitterrand et la télé
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” suppose...
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A Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the g...
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Rhin et Danube
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....
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Snows of Grenoble
Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languep...
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The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab...
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The Resistance: Live Free or Die
La Résistance , is a French television film (docu-fiction) in 2 parts: First part: Live free or die ...
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke ...
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Sacrée Sécu
The whole world envies it; it is the symbol of a united France, a source of national pride, almost a...
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Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influe...
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