Mystères d'archives Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

2001: l'enterrement du commandant Massoud

Films of the funeral of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the anti-Taliban coalition in Afghanistan. He had been assassinated a week before on 9 September 2001.

Episode 2

1897: Le président Félix Faure en voyage

President Félix Faure's tour in Western France filmed by Charles Moisson.

Episode 3

1945: la capitulation du Japon

Episode 4

1961: Gagarine, premier homme dans l'espace

How the Soviet media presented Yuri Gagarin's pioneering spaceflight in 1961.

Episode 5

1981: Les otages américains libérés d'Iran

Episode 6

1918: Les fêtes de l'armistice

Silent films about crowds celebrating the end of World War I in November 1918.

Episode 7

1977: Le couronnement de l'empereur Bokassa Ie

Episode 8

1945: L'ouverture des camps en Allemagne

27 mins

Films from Nazi concentration camps liberated by the U.S. Army in April 1945. They were later used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials.

Episode 9

1945: Réunions secrètes à Yalta

Films from the Yalta Conference, secret negotiations of the Allied leaders, in February 1945. Some ended up in newsreels, some show behind-the-scenes preparations.

Episode 10

1936: Les Jeux de Berlin

26 mins

Hitler was convinced by his Minister for Public Propaganda Joseph Goebbels that The Olympics could advance the Nazi cause and showcase the German "master race."