Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Technology not only helps clean up our planet, but also allows us to explore the entire universe. According to the astrophysicist Alfred Vidal-Madjar, in five hundred years, we will have visited all the planets in the solar system.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Modern technology comes to the rescue! Planet Earth has a chance of recovering from man-made pollution.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
A group of smart young people found revolutionary ways to solve our planet's woes. Electronic books, Internet mail and much more...
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
The students present the Maestro with various solutions for eliminating pollution on our planet, including vertical farms and biotechnology.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
In the last segment of this Il était une fois... episode on technology, we learn more about what vertical farms can do to help the planet thrive. The first commercial vertical farm recently opened in Singapore.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Jamy will share some interesting and surprising facts about the history of the Olympic Games. Did you know that a Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin started the modern Olympics in 1896?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
We continue our tour of the Olympic Games through the ages. Do you know when the Winter and Summer Olympics and the Paralympics were introduced? Watch this video and find out all kinds of interesting facts.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
In the final episode of this series, find out how the Olympic flame ritual started, what the medals were made of for the Tokyo Olympics, and many other interesting facts.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
In the French town of Lantages, a group of history buffs and other volunteers reenact a series of World War II battles from the years 1940 and 1944. Their equipment and clothing are authentic to the period, which helps to preserve that memory of that difficult time.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
France
In May 2000, Luc Vanrell discovered the P Thirty-Eight Lightning aircraft piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which was last seen on July 31, 1944. His colleague Philippe Castellano explains how the plane was identified.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
France
In part 2 of this video on the disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, you will find out how the remains of his plane were located and retrieved from the bottom of the sea.
Difficulty:
Advanced
France
Director Ridley Scott's recently released movie Napoleon was never intended to be historically accurate. Find out where the movie departs from the facts.
Difficulty:
Advanced
France
In part 2 of this review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, we learn why Napoleon really left the island of Elba and how he dealt with the death of his wife Josephine.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
The Malgré-nous (Despite Ourselves) are the roughly 130,000 young Alsatians from Lorraine, many of them recruited by force, who served under the Nazis during World War II.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre took place over a half a century ago, but France still remembers.
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