S1.E3 ∙ How to Roll Your Guards

From the emblem of totalitarianism to individual physical suffering, this is a representation of man's rampaging violence to draw up an anatomical inventory of the damaged body and examine the consequences of the conflict on children.

The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A Valley Against an Empire", made in 1981. Fifteen years later, weakened, isolated, betrayed by many of his own, the "Lion of Panshir" has not surrendered to his new and implacable enemies, the Taliban. While preparing his next offensive, he evokes his commitment and his fights, and bears witness to a history in which he has been one of the main actors for twenty years. At the same time, the director questions the role and power of the media, as well as his own approach as a filmmaker. Commander Massoud was killed in an attack in September 2001.

Dramatic composition depicting a host of F.M.L.N. guerrillas marching forth from Monte Alzaco, the spiritual home of Salvadoran resistance.

Against the backdrop of the famous campaigns which led to his eventual defeat, this documentary shows spectacular archive footage of Hitler's secret armory as it was being developed, tested and finally used in anger.

APRIL 1865 examines the extraordinary series of events that changed the course of history in 30 brief days. In that one month, Petersburg fell, Richmond fell and burned, General Lee retreated to Appomattox, the Confederate States Armies surrendered one after another, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the famous actor John Wilkes Booth was hunted down. This docu-drama follows the events and how they affected the entire nation even to this day.

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest.