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The story of Thomas Niedermayer, the German businessman abducted by the IRA.

In December 1973, the doorbell of the German Niedermayer family in Northern Ireland rings late at night: Renate, the younger of the two daughters, opens the door. Two men tell her that her father's car has been damaged in an accident. Thomas Niedermayer is already asleep, but Renate wake up her father. He goes outside and is abducted, becoming one of the many ‘disappeared’ in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, an event that affects his family for decades.

The story of Thomas Niedermayer, the German businessman abducted by the IRA.

Face Down: The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer

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Organisers are hoping this year’s games - which are taking place in Paris - will be a turning point for the Paralympics movement. From blind-football to goalball, the sporting event is steadily reaching larger audiences with ticket sales also on the rise. This ARTE Europe Weekly, we look at the history of the Paralympics and ask how inclusive are the games?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Organisers are hoping this year’s games will be a turning point for the Paralympics, 

Paralympics: What You Need to Know

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into the political landscape and daily life. But behind an increasingly smooth and respectable façade lies an ideology that remains fundamentally racist and violent. An in-depth focus into an ecosystem of extreme ideology in France, Germany, and Belgium.

Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into politics and daily life, but remains fundamentally violent and racist. 

White Power

At a party organized by GQ magazine, Noel Gallagher admitted it: the Oasis secret sauce for success is good old-fashioned plagiarism. How did the greatest rock band of all time manage to copy all the other greatest rock bands of all time - and get away with it?

Oasis: the best rock band in the world?

As Oasis reform to perform a landmark tour, Tape asks: were they ever any good? 

Tape: Oasis

In 1983 legendary London gay-club Heaven was the setting for a memorable performance by Eurhythmics. The band had recently broken through into the mainstream and Annie Lennox had just become a global pop icon.  

Classic concert: Eurythmics Live from Heaven

In 1983 legendary London gay-club Heaven was the setting for a memorable performance by newly-famous pop duo, Eurhythmics.

Eurythmics Live from Heaven

Russia boasts a handful of "Western experts" who agree with the Kremlin world view. These German, Belgian and French experts are regular guests on Russian propaganda TV channels. Fake News finds out who these people are and what their views actually are.

The Kremlin's Western 'Experts'

Russia boasts a handful of "Western experts" from Europe who regularly appear on Russian TV channels. 

Fake News

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The immune system is as vital to the human body as the heart or the lungs. It protects us from harm survival but can also turn against us. This documentary looks at the latest scientific discoveries around this complex and fascinating system, and how it can be strengthened.

In-depth doc: How our immune systems protect us, but can harm us too

The immune system is vital to the human body and protects us from harm, but it can also turn against us. 

Our Immune System - A Powerful Guardian

The Kills are back, and they have every intention of putting the rock into La Route du Rock! Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince combine the classic hits with new material for a sardine-packed audience.

The Kills electrify La Route du Rock 2024

Rock duo The Kills electrify La Route du Rock!

The Kills

Rowing, and the eight in particular, has a long tradition that is not just about sport: political influence, relationships and women's fight for equal rights have also played a major role. This documentary follows the German men's eight as it prepares for Paris 2024 as well as the historic Boat Race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

With all eyes on the Olympic Games in Paris, the documentary sheds light on the myth of the eight-man rowing team.

Eight on Board: A History of Rowing

Choreographer Marcos Morau and the Ballet Nacional de España combine their choreographic work with the images of Colombian photographer Ruvén Afanador.

Marcos Morau's breathtaking choreography

A work where dance and photography meet, celebrating the work of fashion photographer Ruvén Afanador.

Afanador

From the 13th to 15th June 2024, Sónar transforms Barcelona once again into a mecca for electronic music and the digital arts. Watch some of the highlights here on ARTE Concert: Ben Böhmer, Richie Hawtin, Adriatique and many others, all available from the 18 July.

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One of Europe's most prestigious electronic festivals, held in the heart of the Catalan capital.

Sónar 2024

The Dolomites, the breathtaking mountains of northern Italy, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rising majestically from lush green valleys up to towering peaks. Popular with nature lovers, they also offer a unique cuisine and Alpine way of life.

Summer in the Italian Alps - The Dolomites

The breathtaking mountains of northern Italy are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rising majestically from lush green valleys up to towering peaks.

The Dolomites

Alternative icons Arcade Fire are known for their rousing performances, and this one, captured at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival, is no exception. A journey of pure poetic energy

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Canada's Arcade Fire live up to their storming reputation in Bilbao.

Arcade Fire

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, enshrining the creation of NATO just four years after the end of the Second World War. The primary objective of this military alliance of twelve European and North American countries was to prevent war in Europe and to counter the expansion of the Soviet bloc. Since its creation in the Cold War, the organisation has grown from 12 to 31 member states - including several former Eastern Bloc nations. Weakened by its turbulent history, NATO is facing a growing number of challenges: the difficulty of coordinating its members, the logistical obstacles in the event of an attack on European soil, and the threat, raised by Donald Trump, of an American withdrawal, at a time when European defence is almost entirely dependent on the United States.

A look back at the turbulent history of the military alliance facing unprecedented challenges in the face of Putin's Russia.

Putin, NATO, and Europe

Alice and Gabrielle are expecting a child. After three years of IVF they are final they are finally going to become mothers. While Alice watches her belly grow, Gabrielle tries to find her role. Even if it means taking on a little too much in the living room...

Alice and Gabrielle are expecting a child. In this tender and funny series, two women build a family in a heteronormative world.

Two Mothers, One Child

You can choose your friends, but not your family. Some siblings work together in creative fields such as architecture, design or music. A source of joy and inspiration, but also sometimes a source of conflict...

Twist

Siblings work together in creative fields like architecture, design or music. A source of joy and inspiration, but also sometimes a source of conflict...

Creative Siblngs

Dropkick Murphys are probably the most Irish of US bands. The boys from Boston present their new album Okemah Rising at Hellfest.

Hellfest 2024

The boys from Boston present their new album Okemah Rising at Hellfest.

Dropkick Murphys

“Adriana Lecouvreur”, Calabrian composer Francesco Cilea’s most famous work, is a lyrical retelling of the story of Adrienne Lecouvreur, the famous Parisian actress who died in suspicious circumstances in 1730.

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur at the Latvian National Opera in Riga.

The Latvian National Opera presents Francesco Cilea’s opera on the tragic story of Adriana Lecouvreur.

Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur

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Ten years ago, the ‘Hannover Klassik Open Air’ was launched under the motto ‘Opera for everyone’. A success story that has lost none of its charm to this day.

This anniversary show presents highlights from past open-air concerts with new international singing stars in Hanover's illuminated Maschpark.

Opera highlights from the atmospherically illuminated Maschpark Hannover with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and international opera stars.

Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024

La Route du Rock 2024

Jinjer have established themselves as one of the most interesting metalcore bands in recent years. Founded in 2009, the Ukrainian outfit found their own style with the albums King of Everything and Macro, rich in ferocious riffs and progressive structures that serve as a showcase for Tatiana Shmayluk's voice. Their concert at Summer Breeze 2024 promises to be one to remember.

Summer Breeze 2024

Jinjer makes progressive metalcore, served up by the powerful voice of Tatiana Shmayluk.

Jinjer

Youn Sun Nah and Eric Legnini take the Jazz à Porquerolles festival by storm in a concert combining voice and piano. A live discovery of the album Elles.

Jazz à Porquerolles 2024

Youn Sun Nah's voice combines with Eric Legnini's piano.

Youn Sun Nah & Eric Legnini

Spanish musician Sílvia Pérez Cruz brings the 2024 edition of the Avignon Festival to a musical close. A task she accomplished with brio, backed by muisc from her latest album Toda la vida, un día.

Avignon Festival 2024

Sílvia Pérez Cruz at the closing concert of the Festival d'Avignon 2024.

Toda la vida, un dia: Silvia Pérez Cruz

German producer and performer Ben Böhmer is one of the great architects of electronic music. He is known for his haunting sounds and deep, dreamlike beats. His new album Bloom comes out in September, and his world tour has brought him to the prestigious Sónar 2024 festival in Barcelona.

The German producer and performer, a veritable icon of the electronic scene, takes to the stage at Barcelona's Sónar festival.

Ben Böhmer live

Simple Minds perform their cult album New Gold Dream in the unique setting of the Théâtre Antique de Fourvière, along with some of their other timeless hits.

Nuits de Fourvière 2024

The Scottish rock legends take over the ancient theatre of Fourvière.

Simple Minds

Megadeth defend their title as champions of thrash metal at Hellfest in a performance mixing timeless classics and more recent material.

Megadeth

Maria José Llergo is one of a wave of Spanish artists giving flamenco a new lease of life. She will be presenting ULTRABELLEZA, her first full-length album, at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo combines flamenco and hip-hop for the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo

DJ and producer Richie Hawtin is one of the leading lights of electronic music, with a career spanning more than twenty-five years.  In his own words, "the whole art of techno is to make the machines disappear". This techno visionary is a regular at Barcelona's Sónar and returns this year with a new show, DEX EFX X0X.

This techno visionary is a regular fixture at Sónar, here returning in 2024 with his brand new show "DEX EFX X0X".

Richie Hawtin: DEX EFX X0X

Cimafunk is the ultimate blend of funk and Cuban music. An unstoppable cocktail that the musician serves up with generosity at the Nuits de Fourvière.

Cimafunk

Quebec's Simple Plan set Germany's Southside Festival alight. Known for hits like "Welcome to My Life" and "Perfect", they navigate between pop punk rhythms and catchy melodies.

Southside Festival 2024

Simple Plan play pumped-up pop punk with some great melodies and plenty of bratty passion.

Simple Plan

Amidst the riffs and growls that turn Hellfest into a maelstrom of fury, one artist stands out: Sylvaine. Welcome to shoegaze territory.

A bubble of sensitivity and emotion at Hellfest.

Sylvaine

The latest edition of the Festival International de Colmar opens with an exceptional performance from the Orchestre Symphonique du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. After Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin, baritone Stéphane Degout sings Mahler's Songs of a Wandering Companion. The evening at Saint-Matthieu church closes with César Franck's Symphony in D minor, a jewel from the repertoire of the late 19th century.

Festival international de Colmar

A "Royal Overture" of Wagner, Mahler and Franck, conducted by Alain Altinoglu and featuring baritone Stéphane Degout.

A Royal Overture

American indie rock band The National, known for hits such as "Bloodbuzz Ohio" and "I Need My Girl", successfully mix introspective lyrics and atmospheric melodies. Their concerts are often essential experiences and have cemented their reputation on the international stage. Here they perform a emotional set at German festival Southside.

The National's punchy indie rock with introspective lyrics is always a crowd-pleaser.

The National

Machine Head blew Hellfest away in 2007 and 2012. In 2024, their epic stagecraft repeats the performance.

Machine Head

German-Canadian singer Alice Merton, famous for her hit "No Roots", presents songs from her albums Mint and S.I.D.E.S. Her powerful voice and catchy melodies have won over fans across the world. Relive her performance at the Southside Festival, one of Germany's biggest open-air pop and rock festivals.

Alice Merton wows fans the world over with her blend of old-school pop and bracing electro.

Alice Merton

Corey Taylor, singer from Slipknot and Stone Sour, takes to the Hellfest stage as a solo artist performing from his third CMF2B...Or Not 2B.

Corey Taylor

Immersed in music from an early age, Judith Hill's work blends soul, R&B and funk. Her sincere and fragile creations prove just how much courage and strength it takes for women to make their mark in the male-dominated music industry.

Elbjazz Festival 2024

A Grammy Award-winning soul star with touchingly authentic lyrics.

Judith Hill

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Théo Curin is a French Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, he made a daring attempt, together with two able-bodied swimmers, to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Théo Curin: Paralympic swimmer.

In November 2021, the Frenchman made a daring attempt to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Swimming through Adversity

Forty years ago, in June 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israelis. A small guerrilla group came together in secret to resist this offensive. Formed and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, it officially declared itself in 1985 as Hezbollah: The Party of God.
Four decades later, this small group has grown to become one of the most important military and political forces in the Middle East. A party of resistance for some, a terrorist group for others, Hezbollah is admired as much as it is feared. But the organisation, practically a state within a state, is living through turbulent times as Lebanon is experiencing a major political and economic crisis.

As  Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group Hezbollah, a controversial organisation supported by Iran.

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah

Antonio Basa is an olive grower in the Extramadura region of Spain. At night, he has to patrol his olive groves to chase away thieves who try to steal from his trees. Drought has halved the harvest in the last two yearsin Spain, making the price of olive oil skyrocket.

With the price of olive oil skyrocketing, Spain’s olive producers have to defend their crop from organised gangs.

Re: Olive Thieves in Spain

The housing crisis in Germany’s capital is causing misery for vulnerable people. Those excluded from the property market are forced to live in unsuitable housing. In the Lichtenberg district, a container park houses hundreds of people who cannot afford decent accommodation. But for how much longer?

Living in a container: the housing crisis in Berlin

In the Lichtenberg district of Berlin a container park houses hundreds of people who cannot afford a home.

Re: Living in a Container

Less than 40 kilometres separate the French coast from England at Calais. The crossing seems easy to many, although in reality it is highly dangerous. Smugglers have recently been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life.

ARTE Reportage

Smugglers have been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life in England.

Children of Calais

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.

The Middle Class in Crisis

An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.

Working But Poor

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war. Their ideology is as ferociously anti-American and antisemitic, as it is pro-Palestine with young people indoctrinated into a strict religious view of the world that burns with anger.

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war.

Yemen: Houthi Fury

Abductions take place on a massive scale in Nigeria. In one week in March, almost 500 people were abducted in two towns in the north of the country, many of them school children. On average, ten people are kidnapped every day in the country, five times as many as in Mexico and Colombia combined.

Kidnapping in Nigeria

In Nigeria, gangs kidnap women, men and children en masse in order to extort ransom money from their families.

Tidying, clearing out, decluttering: social media is awash with advice on how to simplify or improve your life by living with less things. Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions and even people, getting rid of toxic people in their lives. But does minimalism make them happier?

Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions. But does living with less things make them happier?

Re: Minimalism - A Life of Luxury?

A look back at the last 12 months before Britain left the European Union, which finally happened on 31 January 2020. It was a year of chaos and plotting, fear and loathing, often descending into farce.

A look back at the last chaotic 12 months before Britain left the European Union on 31 January 2020

Brexit Endgame: 2019-2020

Igor Smilev's life has been marked by pain and a sense of powerlessness. The 48-year-old lost his parents and sister to cancer and he is convinced that the cause of their illness lies in the air. For decades, North Macedonia has had the worst levels of air pollution in Europe.

For decades, Northern Macedonia has had the worst air pollution levels in Europe.

Pollution in North Macedonia

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In April 1974, left-wing factions in the Portuguese military staged a coup against the authoritarian regime which had been in power for half a century. The uprising was largely peaceful and went down in history as the Carnation Revolution. But the path to a democratic Portugal was not easy and not without obstacles.

Carnations against Dictatorship

On the night of 24 April 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the Salazar dictatorship, paving the way for a democratic Portugal.

Portugal

From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

Re-telling history from a new perspective

Women’s contributions to history have often been downplayed or misrepresented. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

Duels of History

A light-hearted look at stories of conflict in international affairs from the Crimean crisis, North Korean nuclear threats and Trump's ever-present tweets.

A light-hearted look at stories of conflict in international affairs from the Crimean crisis to Northern Ireland, North Korean nuclear threats to Donald Trump..