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In Sicily, local people are committed to protecting their island's precious flora and fauna. In Palermo, Carmela Dacchille is passionate about the plants found in the city. Anna Giordano is waging a fierce battle against the powerful local hunting lobby. And Patrizia, daughter of the famous free diver Enzo Maiorca, is fighting against illegal fishing.

A trip to Sicily where local people are passionate about protecting the precious flora and fauna of the Mediterranean's largest island.

Sicily: Italy's Island Under the Sun

Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly and Petr Popelka conduct the four movements of Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 9' in succession across Europe. An epic concert celebrating the bicentenary of the creation of Beethoven's masterpiece.

Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly and Petr Popelka conduct the four movements of the ‘Ninth’ in succession across Europe.

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

First performed in Vienna in 1824, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 celebrates its bicentenary in 2024. With its famous chorale finale based on Schiller's poem "An die Freude"(Ode to Joy), this monumental work of art is today one of the symbols of European unity. How was this symphony created? And how has its message been interpreted and reinterpreted over the years?

200 Years of Beethoven's Ninth

From its creation in 1824 to the present day, the story of a monumental musical work.

The Power of Music

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, enshrining the creation of NATO just four years after the end of the Second World War. The primary objective of this military alliance of twelve European and North American countries was to prevent war in Europe and to counter the expansion of the Soviet bloc. Since its creation in the Cold War, the organisation has grown from 12 to 31 member states - including several former Eastern Bloc nations. Weakened by its turbulent history, NATO is facing a growing number of challenges: the difficulty of coordinating its members, the logistical obstacles in the event of an attack on European soil, and the threat, raised by Donald Trump, of an American withdrawal, at a time when European defence is almost entirely dependent on the United States.

A look back at the turbulent history of the military alliance facing unprecedented challenges in the face of Putin's Russia.

Putin, NATO, and Europe

After the end of the Second World War, American Major Steve Arnold is tasked with finding out which side the famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had decided to stay in Nazi Germany, was on. Was the legendary figure of classical music a Nazi?

The Furtwängler Case

Was famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, for or against the Nazis? Feature film biopic.

Taking Sides

A team of 40 researchers embark on an expedition to explore the remotest parts of Patagonia, the world at the end of the world. With two representatives of the Kawésqar indigenous people, the team sails to the limestone island of Madre de Dios where they explore the magnificent Calvo glacier, and countless caves and subterranean rivers.

A team of 40 researchers embark on an expedition to explore the remotest parts of Patagonia, the world at the end of the world.

Patagonia: The Final Frontier

Gaspar Rubicon wakes up from a coma speaking a coherent language that only he understands. Unable to speak English, he becomes isolated from society until he starts posting videos on the internet.

Gaspar Rubicon wakes up from a coma speaking a coherent language that only he understands. 

Wave

While anti-war and pro-Palestine protests heat up across university campuses around the world; att this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place in the Swedish city of Malmö on Saturday, the Palestinian flag will be notably absent as boycott campaigns swirl over Israel’s participation. In this episode of ARTE Europe Weekly, we look at how camp culture and geopolitics have always gone hand-in-hand at Eurovision.

ARTE Europe Weekly

The globally televised song contest Eurovision insists it’s not political. But the most recent chapter in a decades-long history of political tension behind the event’s glitzy backdrop suggests a different story.

Israel’s war on Gaza takes centre stage at Eurovision

Sara is an overweight teenager who is bullied by a gang of popular girls. But one day at the swimming pool will change everything. Horror short film written and directed by Carlota Pereda.

Sara is an overweight teenager who is bullied by a gang of popular girls. Horror short film written and directed by Carlota Pereda.

Piggy (Cerdita)

Behind its wholesome and eco-friendly image, the Swedish furniture giant - the world's biggest consumer of wood - has some highly unscrupulous practices. An investigation into the Scandinavian multinational with an insatiable appetite for raw materials, or how Ikea plunders the planet.

Behind its wholesome image, the Swedish furniture giant has some highly unscrupulous practices.

How Ikea Plunders the Planet

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

ARTE Reportage

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left big cities in the north of the country for modest towns in the south, in search of a new life. In Calabria, where the mafia and unemployment reign supreme, we follow Angelo, Rocco, Francesco and Nunzia – who have all decided to reinvent themselves by moving back to their hometowns.

Starting a new life in southern Italy

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left wealthy cities in the north for poorer towns in the south of the country.

Re: Return to Calabria

What would happen if the primates took over? Since the first film was released in 1968, the Planet of the Apes franchise has asked questions of contemporary society through the prism of an audacious sci-fi story. A fascinating focus on a hugely sucessful pop-culture phenomenon.

A Milestone of Science Fiction

Since the first film was released in 1968, the Planet of the Apes franchise has asked questions of contemporary society through the prism of an audacious sci-fi story.

The Planet of the Apes

As a brave new world of ubiquitous AI arrives, an overview of the latest tech advances. Europe is playing catch up in the frantic AI technology race but has an ever-growing number of start-ups specialising in the field. Jonas Andrulis, founder of Aleph Alpha, a company based in Heidelberg in Germany, is looking to generate AI capable of streamlining the work of public bodies. Frenchman Thomas Wolf, co-founder of the Hugging Face platform, favours open source AI that is accessible to all. As for Han Xiao, the founder of Berlin start-up Jina AI, his ambition is to create a generative AI  (capable of creating content autonomously) that could outperform ChatGPT. 

The AI Technology Race

As a brave new world of ubiquitous AI arrives, an overview of the latest tech advances. Can Europe keep up with China and the USA?

Smart New World

When it comes to orthodontic problems, everyone prefers to forget about them... Everyone, that is, except Billie Eilish. TAPE finds out why.

Billie Eilish

TAPE

William Frederick Cody - aka Buffalo Bill - was a self-made man who went from bison hunter in the American West to international showman. His Wild West spectacular was hugely popular in the USA and in Europe and has shaped our imagination of the America Frontier ever since.

Inventor of the Wild West

The Wild West showman who thrilled Europe and America with his extravagant spectacles and shaped our idea of the American Frontier.

Buffalo Bill

It all started New York during prohibition. This three-part documentary tells the little-known story of the alliances between criminal organisations and financial institutions from the 1920s to the present day.

The Time of Pioneers

The story of the alliances between criminal organisations and financial institutions from the 1920s to the present day.

Mafia and Banks (1/3)

Paul Auster’s latest novel ‘4321’ gives four different scenarios for the life of its central character, Isaac Archibald Ferguson. With contributions from his wife and fellow writer Siri Hustvedt, filmmaker Wim Wenders and artist Sam Messer, this documentary explores Auster’s writing and his life.
 

Paul Auster - A Game of Chance

Nottingham and Birmingham are among the UK local councils that have effectively declared themselves bankrupt. In order to plug their funding gaps, vital services such as social care are being cut back, but so are those that make up the cities’ cultural life, like museums and librairies, as well as everyday essentials including street lights and public toilets. Almost half of all British local authorities fear that they will not have enough money to get through the next two years.

This programme by German broadcaster ZDF is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative from European public service media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR, RTBF and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Nottingham and Birmingham are among the UK local councils that have effectively declared themselves bankrupt. 

UK councils facing bankruptcy

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

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Petra is a political science student in Budapest, Hungary. She is fighting for the rule of law and democracy to be respected in her country, as populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán policies continue to endanger one fundamental right after another.

Democracy and the rule of law

This political science student in Budapest is fighting for a better education in the hopes of saving Hungarian democracy.

Petra the political science student in Hungary

A look back at 2020, the year of global lockdown: What was this shared solitude like for people across the world? How did people adapt as personal freedoms were curtailed and busy metropolises were turned into ghost towns?

2020: A Very Particular Year

Unearthed in the 19th century in what is now Turkey, the Altar of Pergamon has been on display in Berlin since 1901. This documentary traces the eventful history of this masterpiece of Antiquity.

A Marvel of the Ancient World

The eventful history of the Pergamon Altar, rediscovered in the 19th century in what is now Turkey and exhibited in Berlin since 1901.

The Pergamon Altar

In 1889. Belgian engineer Gustave Verniory was at the beginning of his professional career when he was appointed to build a railway line through the natural landscape of Araucania in Chile. The indigenous Mapuche region had only recently been annexed by the Latin American republic. Ignacio Agüero's documentary film is inspired by Verniory’s memoirs.

Gustave Verniory was a Belgian engineer who moved from Brussels to Chile in 1889 to help build the railway.

Notes for a Film

On a farm in the east of Croatia, the Lackovic family still cooks traditional regional recipes, such as poppy strudel and paprikas fis, a kind of bouillabaisse with freshwater fish.

Terroir Cuisine

On a farm in the east of Croatia, the Lackovic family still cooks traditional regional recipes

Slavonia

Cristian Măcelaru and the Orchestre National de France invite Alexandre Kantorow to play Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2. A concert also featuring music by Prokofiev.

90 years of the Orchestre National de France

Pianist Alexandre Kantorow joins forces with the Orchestre National de France.

Cristian Măcelaru conducts Chopin and Prokofiev

Archaeologist Laïla Nehmé embarks on an extraordinary scientific expedition and adventure: Recreating a camel caravan across Saudi Arabia to learn more about the ancient Arab people, the Nabataeans, who were wealthy traders across the vast desert.

An archaeologist recreates a camel caravan to learn more about the ancient Arab people, the Nabataeans.

Caravans of Arabia

People around the world have developed rituals around death to support the bereaved, to channel our fear of death and to accompany the deceased on their final journey. Anthropologist Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke explores funeral rites life in Bali and the Ivory Coast.

Death

People around the world have developed rituals around death to support the bereaved, to channel our fear of death and to accompany the deceased on their final journey.

Rituals of Life

When does childhood end and adulthood begin? Societies around the world have created rituals that mark this moment. Anthropologist Anne-Sylvie Malbranke visits Portugal and Papua New Guinea to discover the specific rites of passage associated with growing up.

Growing Up

When does childhood end and adulthood begin? Societies around the world have created rituals that mark this moment. 

Seduction is a highly ritualised act in life. Anthropologist Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke shows us  seduction rituals of the Suri people of Ethiopia, and in Bali, Indonesia.

Seduction

Seduction is a highly ritualised act in Bali, Indonesia, and among the Suri of Ethiopia.

Almost every society in the world has some form of marriage, but it is defined, and celebrated, differently from culture to culture. Anthropologist Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke takes us to northern Togo, where marriage begins with conflict, and to the Comoros, where the ritual of the Great Marriage is celebrated with great pomp.

Marriage

Almost every society in the world has some form of marriage, but it is defined, and celebrated, differently from culture to culture.

The red fox, winter or summer, is always on the hunt for food. Despite the fact it keeps rodent populations in check, it's an animal with an extremely bad reputation, resented for going after chickens and thought of as a pest. 

The Secret Life of the Prairie

Despite the fact it keeps rodent populations in check, the fox has an extremely bad reputation

Myths and Legends of Wild Animals

In the Middle Ages, owls were nailed to doors, cats persecuted almost to extinction, and magpies considered unscrupulous thieves. But the animals are not only harmless, they also bring numerous advantages to the humans they live near. Cats keep mice populations in check at home, while in the fields the silent owl stops rodents from destroying the harvest. This documentary series appreciates the beauty of animals who've long been feared and hated in popular mythology. 

Barn Owls, Cats and Magpies

In the Middle Ages, owls were nailed to doors, cats persecuted almost to extinction, and magpies considered unscrupulous thieves

In a world where animals are viewed as products, 70 million are slaughtered every year for food after a bleak life of suffering. This documentary goes inside the factory to show how animals are farmed on an industrial scale to satisfy consumer's appetite for cheap abundant food.

In a world where animals are viewed as products, 70 million are slaughtered every year for food after a bleak life of suffering.

Production Line Animals

In 2020 a strange phenomenon was reported in the waters around Gibraltar. Killer whales began ramming into sailing vessels and tearing off their rudders. These interactions, which terrify sailors, have only increased since.  Why are Orcas, highly intelligent animals, behaving in this way?

Unexplained Attacks off Gibraltar

Killer whales began ramming into boats in 2020 off Gibraltar. Why are they behaving in this way?

Orcas Alert!

Sharing a border with Russia, the atmosphere in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia is tense. Nobody there is under any illusion: If Ukraine falls, the Baltic states will be next on Putin's hitlist. How do artists live with this ever-present threat?

Baltic States: Life on the Edge

If Ukraine falls, the Baltic states will next. How do artists live with this ever-present threat?

Tracks East

The idea behind the Concert for Europe, an event organised by the Berlin Philharmonic since 1991, is to take over places steeped in history and culture. This year, the German phalanx travels to Tsinandali in Georgia, at the crossroads of East and West. Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms's Violin Concerto and the orchestra is conducted by Daniel Harding.The second half features Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.

Berlin Philharmonic Live in Georgia

The Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Daniel Harding, celebrates the anniversary of its foundation and European rapprochement in Georgia.

Concert for Europe 2024

Maria is in the final stages of becoming a midwife. As a devout Catholic and member of the Slovak pro-life movement, she is fighting for a sweeping ban on abortion that would not allow the procedure under any circumstances or exceptions. Maria is also opposed to same-sex marriage, and is optimistic about the European Union shifting to the right. Until now, she has felt underrepresented in EU institutions.

Reproductive rights

Maria, an aspiring midwife in Slovakia, is fighting against abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

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