With their long working hours, cultural obsession with productivity, and high-stakes schooling system, South Koreans live life in the fast lane. Everyone has the same aim: to be successful and to beat the competition. Thanks in part to this hard...

South Korea: Success at all Costs

Examining how the German Siegfried Line and the French Maginot Line protected their countries during World War II by using modern technologies. A fight between the two most sophisticated defense systems at the time

Maginot vs Siegfried: La Guerre des Lignes

When the long nightmare ended, most German women were perceived as passive witnesses to the horrors of the Nazi regime, but actually the leaders of the Third Reich used millions of them as an essential cog of their criminal machinery: they were members of the Nazi party, reproductive mothers, contributors to the war effort, factory workers, volunteers as guards in the death camps.

Women of the Third Reich

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

Stasi, un État contre son peuple

During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of official photographs taken by the SS.

Mauthausen Direnişi

The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no longer have a place. Social equality was for him the only guarantee of a true emancipation. During the last four years of his life, he mobilized all his energy to realize this "other dream". But there were many obstacles: he was scorned by white, racist America, abandoned by the political class, but also by some of his own people, who decided to turn their backs on the principle of non-violence.

Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark days of World War II, based on the records written by their inhabitants, who bear witness to the human tragedy of the Shoah; but also to an indomitable will to live.