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What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassing of oneself?

With the help of illustrious weight trainers and experts, All Brawn offers a fascinating look into the history and culture of this art of performance. Gain insight into this mass phenomenon, a metaphor for the obsession with control and cost-efficiency.

When football becomes a citizen sport! At a time when business seems to be corrupting our relationship with sport, the indomitable Eric Cantona shows us footballers who've managed to resist.

Their names are Mekloufi, Sócrates, Pasic, Caszely, Drogba, Tamburrini, Thaljieh, Afonsinho, Navazo or Lucarelli. 10 players who took part in disputes or fought back against the spheres of power, becoming figureheads of resistance or rebellion, well beyond their sole sporting achievements.

A documentary series / manifesto that reasserts the values of sport among citizens, via 10 stories that are dear to Eric Cantona.
 
All episodes available in English

Born on October 30, 1960 in the poor slums in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Diego Maradona grew up with soccer, a sport which proved to be tailor made for him.

Maradona is a star. His life has been interspersed with childhood poverty, the bright lights of stadiums and podiums, dubious involvements with the sports mafia, drugs and politics, a tumultuous love life, subsequent attempts to merchandise Maradona, and plenty of money.
Nicknamed "El pibe de oro" (the golden boy), Maradona started his career in Argentina and, along with the national youth team, won the World Champion title in 1979. Then the young prodigy played in Spain for two seasons, before joining Naples in 1984, where he became an idol. At the same time, he led Argentina to triumph in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. It was during this World Cup that he scored one of the most beautiful goals in the history of football.
After failing a dope test in 1991 he was banned from the football fields. On October 30, 1997, at the age of 37, he retired from football. However, the slightest doings on his part still make world headlines.
This film recalls the beauty of Maradona's style and is a celebration of the man named Player of the Century by the FIFA.

Argentina, the land of horses, is also the home of polo, a traditionally male sport. Argentine Open Polo Championship, one of the most renowned international tournaments, is held once a year in Buenos Aires. But for a long time now, and at an impressive rate, women have also been making their mark on the field. Clarita Cassino is one of the best players in the country. Will she make it to the finals once again alongside her team-mates?

They learned how to play tennis in one of America’s most dangerous ghettos... became world n°1 and world n°2 in singles and forged an unparalleled record. As African-American women, who are sculptural and powerful, and embody new codes, the Williams sisters navigated through sexism and racism, became world icons, and changed tennis forever.

A New York summer night. An overheated stadium full of people. The stands are packed, feverish, eyes focused on a face in tears. That of Serena Williams, in the middle of the court, as she bids farewell to the world of tennis after a record-breaking career  In her speech to the crowd, the greatest player of all time, choked with sobs, addressed her 15-month older sister, Venus: "I wouldn't be Serena if it wasn't  for Venus. So, thank you Venus. She's the only reason  that Serena Williams ever existed." From the stands, Venus is looking at her little sister, as she has always done since they started playing.
 
With this sentence, Serena sealed her destiny to that of her older sister. Serena, 40, and Venus, 41, have dominated the world of tennis for many years, breaking all records, building an unparalleled record of success... and breaking the color barrier in the sport and in an America plagued by racism. Born into a poor African-American family, cradled in the culture of the ghetto, and fed on their father's mantras of confidence and nerve, Serena and Venus landed like two UFOs in the muffled world of tennis. The two teenagers would challenge the entire system with the freshness of their youth and an acute awareness of their strength. As both sculptural and powerful Black women, self-confident, displaying codes that were never seen before, they would crystallize the divisions tearing American society apart. But together, they overcame the sexist, classist and racist remarks, the broncas of the public, the mistrust of the other players, the contempt of tournament organizers, the sarcastic and biased comments of journalists. United, they would not only bring women's tennis into the modern world, but would also become global icons.

This exclusive scientific investigation explores new methods used to improve the mental health of world-class athletes.
 

What does an athlete's mind look like? How does it work? What are the new methods to improve one' s mental state and to be competitive?
Through a review of the great stories of sport since the 80s up to the present day, through the prism of the mind, our investigation will explain how these new weapons of performance work, by filming mental coaches and athletes in training and following them in their mental preparation on the eve of the Olympic Games.

This first and only real portrait of the man that Malcolm X called the most important black personality of our time. An iconic movie for which Klein was accepted into Ali's entourage and was able to film during the most critical weeks of his career. Unique images that are now legendary.

In 1964, Cassius Clay becomes heavy-weight champion of the world and declares his name is Muhammad Ali. A date in sports history and a turning point in black awareness. It was a searing look into boxing, into the Southern power structure, inside the Black Muslims. Muhammad Ali explodes on the scene constantly catching America off guard, the first black champion to declare himself free. Eventually, it cost him his title, 3 years enforced retirement, and many millions of dollars. Muhammad Ali, an aging 32 year-old, who no longer Floats-like-a-Butterfly-and-Stings-like-a-Bee, no longer a revolutionary figure but nostalgia, wants his title back, or, at least, one last big pay check and he shall fight the terrifying Foreman. And at all odds, this is the end of the most extraordinary sports career of all time. October 31, 5:30am, Kinshasa, Zaïre. Ali stands triumphant over Foreman, bewildered and K.O How did Ali, underdog, ex-martyr, become once again an all-time hero, champion and legend?

The Equestrian Arts Academy, a fascinating cradle of creation and learning founded by Bartabas in the Royal Stables of the Chateau de Versailles, is celebrating its 10th birthday. This beautiful film takes a look behind its scenes.

The squires at the Academy, mainly women, combine the learning of equestrian arts with other artistic disciplines such as singing, dancing, fencing and Japanese archery. The documentary portrays the daily lives of the academy’s extraordinary boarders, who have the privilege of riding along the estate’s deserted avenues at dawn, and of fine-tuning their art, by perfecting a human-animal relationship that matures over time.
 
The film features interviews with Bartabas, with senior instructor Laure Guillaume, and with many other borders, both novices and experienced riders, who provide an insight into the philosophy of the place - a “school of the senses”, where pupils learn by doing. “There’s no point in explaining things. People have to feel and experience them for themselves” explains Bartabas.
 
This film offers a unique opportunity to discover the poetically portrayed corps de ballet’s inner life, among the superb backdrop of the Chateau de Versailles.

2016: the Tour de France is back to Mont Ventoux!

At the top of the Mont Ventoux hangs a huge poster with the names of all the cyclists that won a Tour de France stage on the top of this "Giant of Provence". Which one of these winners would be the greatest climber of them all?
The documentary feature The King of Mont Ventoux puts 5 cycling heroes against each other in an unprecedented Virtual Race beyond the bounds of time. Starting the archive footage of these 5 races together at the foot of the giant, they battle it out in this Virtual Race over the 21-km ascent along a winding forest road to the lunar-like summit of the 'Bald Mountain'; a gruelling one-hour test of endurance and strength. The first to reach the summit is crowned King of Mont Ventoux

The documentary shows how skateboarding, having been "invented" in the United States, took hold in Europe, and how Europeans have appropriated the Californian sport in their own way.

Via successive waves of popularity, skateboarding gradually carved out its own speciality, breaking away not only from surfing, but also from the industrial groups that ran the business. A "punk" sport par excellence, requiring neither coach nor any particular outfit, skateboarding was supported by its own heroes, who became manufacturers and businessmen, contributing their technical innovation and their own particular mindset.

Today, although most skateboarding business takes place in the US, it is perhaps in Europe that the original spirit of skateboarding has been best preserved. It is this daredevil spirit of fraternity, fun and independence that prompts young skateboarders to become headstrong, creative men.

Through travel and encounters, most of the characters in Skateboard Stories have grown up with skateboarding, with its wounds and bruises but also with the endless quest for a place to stakeboard, whether in major cities like Marseille, Brussels, Barcelona or Berlin, or just down the street from where they live.

“Body building”: to build your own body. While the concept has been around for more than a century, 40 years ago we used to laugh at Conan and Rambo flexing their pectorals.

The laughter has subsided now, the bodybuilder and the “fit girl” have become standards of the times. Muscles are not just an organ anymore, they are a social model.

Rachid Mekhloufi, a player with the French football team, who during the Algerian war, chose to go underground and rally his country to defend Algeria in 1958, in the FLN football team.

At the end of the fifties, Rachid Mekhloufi chose to abandon the French team, and at the head of a football team, fought for Algerian independence.