Ocean’s battle

Since the end of the 19th century, the world’s major naval powers have pioneered increasingly powerful fleets of warships. The oceans have become strategic battlegrounds. These ships have been designed to outperform other warships, resist attack and match the firepower of any formidable enemy. But these Clash of the Titians have rarely been captured on film, and the wrecks of some of these defeated giants can lie hundreds of metres below the surface of the ocean. Yet, luckily, some these steel monsters have been given new life as floating museums or teaching ships and can be found all over the globe. They bear witness to the technological advances of their age, the developments made in naval engineering in the 20th century, and the history of war at sea. These floating superstructures are the forebears of our aircraft carriers, battleships and modern destroyers, which still play an important strategic role in global politics today: the command of the sea.

By retracing the history of these legendary ships, this innovative television series, which features previously unseen archive footage as well as photorealistic 3D models in 4K, will immerse the viewer and take them to the heart of the naval battles that made history.

A revolution is brewing in the countryside.

Farmers are talking to birds, fraternizing with foxes and badgers, playing host to migrating birds, cohabiting with turtles and bats, welcoming weeds as well as all the unwelcome, unnecessary and supposedly harmful ‘nature’. Across France, hybrid communities are slowly taking shape where farmers, domestic life and wildlife interact and negotiate about each other’s daily needs for the greater benefit of all.

By following the daily routines of tree farms for a whole year, this documentary invites us to discover a little-known aspect of biodiversity, via original and sometimes surprising interactions between wild and domestic animals.

So, what is the message behind these contemporary, funny, moving and optimistic animal fables? The premise for a new society based on a new alliance between man and nature!

Sharks private life…

They hunt, gather in groups, have manic feeding frenzies, and violently attack: sharks are often considered as dangerous killing machines, driven by their primal instinct.
To dispel this image, this film intends to break down these preconceived ideas and reveal the lesser, gentler known aspects of the nature of sharks: delicate, timid, ingenious, harmless…. Sometimes clumsy or unlucky, they too are prey and have to defend themselves against attack. Surviving in the ocean is not as easy as you might think, even for a shark!

Thanks to previously unseen 4K footage, filmed by Didier Noirot, the sharks in this documentary reveal their private side, and certain behaviours for the very first time. This immersion in their private world could well change the way we look at sharks forever.

An inspiring desert

The mystery of the henna gardens of Ouarzazate, the luxuriant maze of the Majorelle Garden, the precious red gold of Taliouine, the refined sensuality of the “Perfumes of the sun” of Marrakech, the fascinating profusion of the smells of herbalists … so many stages that punctuate the journey of the great perfumers Isabelle Doyen and Camille Goutal to Morocco, for the creation of a perfume inspired by the 7th day of the birth of a child.

Gombessa IV Expedition

Legend has it that the shark is a lone wolf. He hunts alone. Think again. The latest science shows that the shark actually hunts in packs.

In a groundbreaking experiment, five of the most experienced underwater scientists in the world will dive at night among 700 starving sharks, the largest school ever recorded. It took them 3 years of preparation to dare descend among the predators. Their goal is to fit electronic trackers on one hundred squalls to monitor their movement and organization during nocturnal hunting. The challenge is to produce a 3D mapping which will reveal the sharks’ movements, gathering points, attacks and strategies, at a scale that has never been done before.

This study revolutionizes our understanding of the world’s greatest predator.

The Pacific Atolls

In the heart of the Pacific, between the lagoon and the ocean, unrolls one of Nature’s greatest spectacles. This is the story of a little surgeonfish that will endeavour to survive the greatest ordeals from the moment he is born. He will face the greatest dangers and cross paths with the ocean’s worst predators. Only one out of a million will make it to adulthood.

Filmed in UHD and extreme slow motion, this film captures exclusive wildlife behaviour of sharks, whales, manta rays, groupers, and more.

Packing for Mars

National space agencies, scientists and private businesses are competing to find pioneering ways to be part of the adventure to dive on Mars, and are investing colossal sums of money to achieve their goal. Competition is fierce and sometimes cutthroat. They all have their sights set on finding the solutions to the problems raised by what is billed as the greatest expedition of all time.

This documentary film presents the most influential scientists, engineers and adventurers in space exploration today.

The Whale Shark is in danger

An extraordinary event takes place each year in January, on the extreme east coast of the Horn of Africa, in the bay of Arta: the incredible and unexplained gathering of whale sharks, the biggest fish in the world.

Intrigued by the phenomenon, more and more tourists come to Djibouti to swim with the sharks, this poses a threat to the sharks who are often injured by boat propellers.

Thankfully veterinary Doctor Betrand Lafrance, nicknamed Doctor Courage, who, since 1995, has been battling for the creation of a Marine Protected Area.

As the film follows his battle, it recounts the environmental, human and scientific stakes that will allow the biggest fish in the world to be saved.

Babouchka

In 2011, Sébastien Roubinet and Rodolphe André, only covered 650 km towards the North Pole due to a faulty main battery. 2013. A new departure! A new hi-tech prototype, a sporty vessel called BABOUCHKA, extremely fast on sea, snow and ice! A new crewmate, too: Vincent Berthet. Beyond his great experience of sailing and of Polar regions, he’s also an excellent cameraman. Seb and Vince have all the assets to rise to this new challenge, on one of the greatest maritime adventures ever undertaken: to be the first in the history of mankind to take a sailing vessel to the Pole; to cross the Arctic Ocean from one Land to the Other without assistance.

Sailing the North Pole

These two were a match made in heaven!

Sébastien decided to take Rodolphe on an unprecedented adventure in summer 2011: the crossing of the Arctic ocean in a sail boat, without food supplies, from Deadhorse in Alaska to the Norwegian Islands of Spitzberg, passing by the geographic North Pole!

To do so, he created an ingenious catamaran, a hybrid ice yacht, « Ti’Babouche » capable of navigating both on ice and water.

Despite the crazy, aborted dream to attempt at a World first, by taking a sail boat to the North Pole, to this little-known summer ice floe, the film reveals the daily life of these two men, in a captivating & spectacular road movie!