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24:56"This Is Not What We Voted For": Latino Voters and Trump Two Years After 2024
In 2024, Donald Trump won nearly one in two Hispanic voters, a record for a Republican candidate. This ARTE documentary asks what has happened to that support since then. It follows a wrongly arrested
25:47Mothers Against Police Violence in Brazil: The Thiago Case and the Fight for Justice in Rio's Favelas
The documentary follows mothers of young people killed by police in Rio de Janeiro. They seek to prove their sons' innocence and mobilize against police lethality in the favelas. The film also gives a
25:27Brazil on the road to 2026: what drives the Bolsonarist base, in the streets, on social media and at the family table
The documentary starts from a personal question: the Brazilian-born reporter and documentary filmmaker Miyuki Droz Aramaki wants to understand why part of her family, especially her uncle, intends to
50:28Two Washingtons: A French Correspondent's Logbook of Trump's Second Term
Marine, a journalist accredited at the White House as a US correspondent for French television, lives with one foot in each of two worlds. By day there is the center of Trumpist power. At home there i
40:01"Life After Reserve Duty": Israeli Soldiers Between Gaza, India and the Beach
An ARTE investigation meets Israeli reservists who have fought in Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, and asks what the war does to them after they take off their uniforms. Some set off on a long
9:51Can the European Union Expand Without Falling Apart?
The last time the European Union admitted a new member was more than 13 years ago. According to this episode of ARTE's Inside Europe, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed that. Since the wa
8:00Israel–United States: A Strategic Alliance Under Strain, but Not at Breaking Point
According to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, ties between Israel and the United States have never been as close as they are with the two of them in power. Yet this ARTE report shows that in both
1:28:54Europe 1952/53: Between the Iron Curtain and the Coal and Steel Community
The ARTE documentary "1952–1953: The Cold War in Europe" portrays a continent seven years after the end of the war. It sees this period as a time of catching one's breath and of hope, but also of cris
11:01Settler Violence in the West Bank and the EU's Stalled Debate Over Sanctioning Israel
This edition of ARTE Europe Weekly asks whether the European Union should use its trade relationship to hold Israel accountable for escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. The program presents
25:09Murder After the Marathon: How Race Winnings Expose Kenya's Female Runners to Violence
This ARTE documentary visits Kenya's distance-running heartland. It asks why winning, for many women athletes there, brings extortion, abuse, and sometimes murder instead of security. The film follows
7:14High School Protests in France: Why Is Policing Accused of Being Too Violent?
In an episode of the daily show "Pourquoi," Arthur looks at the accusations of violence against law enforcement during the high school protest movement that began in mid-September. The starting point
9:48Glass Bottle, Can or Plastic: Which Container for Your Drink?
In the drinks aisle, three friends are torn over a ginger beer: a 1.5-liter plastic bottle, a pack of aluminum cans, or glass bottles? One of them settles it right away: glass, "zero plastic, fully re
11:24Electric or Combustion Car: Where Does the Environmental Break-Even Point Really Lie?
Ventilo's car has just broken down for the second time this month, and the mechanic says it's only fit for the scrapyard. Should it be replaced with an electric car, a hybrid, or should the old combus
11:00France's School Protests: What the European Comparisons Show, and What They Miss
ARTE Europe Weekly asks whether France's education system is falling behind its European neighbours, as protesting pupils and students claim. The programme sets the weeks of unrest in France against c
11:34Refurbished Smartphones: An Eco-Friendly Idea That Isn't What It Seems?
In this episode of the ARTE series Sustainable? But How?, Ventilo drops a brand-new phone into a train toilet on the way back from a 30 km trip that Ventilo and a travel companion had been congratulat
8:49Paper Bag or Plastic Bag: Why the Real Question Is How We Use Them
At the checkout, should you take a paper bag, a plastic bag or a cotton tote bag? This short, humorous ARTE episode opens with a supermarket scene in which two shoppers have forgotten their bags and a
30:11Operating Before Birth: Fetal Surgeon Thomas Kohl and the Families Who Seek Him Out
The ARTE documentary follows fetal surgeon Thomas Kohl at Mannheim University Hospital. Using minimally invasive techniques, he operates in the womb on unborn babies who have severe malformations or l
30:12Alone at 18: Agevolando's Care Leavers and the Network They Built on Their Own
What happens to those who grew up in residential care when they turn eighteen and public support comes to an end? The documentary follows several Italian care leavers, young women and men who have com
30:02Friedensdorf Oberhausen: How Sick Children from Crisis Countries Are Treated in Germany – and Return Home Again
Since 1967, Friedensdorf International has been bringing seriously ill and injured children from war and crisis zones to Germany so that they can receive surgery and care here free of charge. Over sev
4:27Why Are French High School Students Taking to the Streets?
What began at a high school in Créteil has, within a few weeks, grown into a nationwide movement of school blockades and student protests across France. In an episode of the show Pourquoi, which answe