In the final part of this Il était une fois... episode on the ecosystems, the Maestro explains what happened to the people and the famous statues of Easter Island. It's a lesson we'd do well to learn from.

The Maestro gives us an overview of some of the major innovations of the last century, from the invention of the radio to the discovery of the first exoplanet. We've come a long way in just a few decades!

In the second part of this Il était une fois... (Once Upon a Time) episode on technology, the kids attend a technology show in Japan, where they play some amazing virtual reality games... and some practical jokes.

The home of the future includes a talking refrigerator that gives you chocolate bars for breakfast! Unfortunately, it also includes some pesky robots....

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.

Modern technology comes to the rescue! Planet Earth has a chance of recovering from man-made pollution.

A group of smart young people found revolutionary ways to solve our planet's woes. Electronic books, Internet mail and much more...

The students present the Maestro with various solutions for eliminating pollution on our planet, including vertical farms and biotechnology.

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.

Enjoy the classic tale Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), as told by Patricia.

The original version of Le Petit Chaperon rouge, written by Charles Perrault, has a more gruesome ending than the one you might be familiar with. Patricia concludes the tale in this video.

Patricia introduces the famous French animated series Il était une fois (Once Upon a Time), which follows a time-traveling family through the high points of human civilization and into the future. We have several episodes available on Yabla, which you can find here, and more coming soon!

Santa is overwhelmed and needs a hand! He can't keep up with the task of making a special toy for every child on the planet, so he puts an ad in the local papers.

Who knew that young animals go to school while their parents are at the psychiatrist's? At least that's what happens in this cartoon, Les Zooriginaux, known in English as "Wild Instinct."

It seems that what we consider "bad manners" are actually good manners to lions! Watch Leon the lion teach his young cub the art of behaving badly at the dinner table.