The Red Baron 2008

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before …

Baron Manfred von Richthofen is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I.

HISTORY is proud to present the definitive collection of documentary programs on World War One. Experience the world-changing events from the birth of what became known as The Great War to the tragic, final day where over 13,000 men died. From the first dogfighters and the Red Baron, to the battle of The Somme, John J. Pershing, The Iron General and the Last Day of WWI. In the four year period from 1914 - 1918, the war was responsible for over 40 million casualties and over 20 million deaths.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" - but the bodies keep piling up today, from the opening battle, to the beheading of the traitor Cawdor, to the - onscreen - murder of Duncan, to the electrifying final duel to the death (at each clash of metal on metal, and flesh on stone wall, Polanski cut a single frame of film, making the impact almost palpable). His first work after the Manson massacre of his wife and friends…

La folle journée d'un libertin appelé par mille plaisirs, attiré par plusieurs femmes et qui doit écrire cependant l'article 'Morale' de l'Encyclopédie en quelques heures, lui qui ne pense qu'à la volupté… Diderot (Vincent Perez), aux prises avec une aventurière (Fanny Ardant), subit les délires gastronomiques d'une baronne trop gourmande (Josiane Balasko), lutte contre la censure d'un cardinal rouge et exécrable (Michel Serrault) et tente de contrôler les assauts de son épouse, de sa fille, d'une chevalière nymphomane (Arielle Dombasle)…