France Film

Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes listeners on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Robb conveys with wit and precision what it felt like to look over the shoulder of a young Louis XIV as he planned the vast garden of Versailles, and the dangerous thrill of having a seat at the French revolution. Some of the protagonists may be familiar, but appear here in a very different light—Caesar, Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, General Charles de Gaulle.

John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains to Charlemagne through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, France is packed with heroes and villains, adventures and battles, romance and revolution. Full of memorable stories and racy anecdotes, this is the country that has inspired the rest of the world to live, dress, eat - and love better.

In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight, fresh from combat in Scotland finds his wife, Marguerite, accusing squire Jacques Le Gris of brutally raping her. A deadlocked court decrees a “trial by combat” that also leaves Marguerite’s fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris.

BARDOT AT 80 Up close, personal and revised for her birthday - RELEASE DATE - 9/14/2014 Difficult to believe, but the "sex kitten" who scandalized the 1950s and the 1960s with her unbelievable beauty, her wonderful childlike screen persona and her lack of clothes, is now an octogenarian. Twenty years ago, for the first and only time, a writer was granted access to the woman behind the myth to tell her amazing story. Now, that story is brought up to date. For sixty years, Brigitte Bardot was an international phenomenon. Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman on earth, her legendary on-...

The era of the great trans-Atlantic liners has come and gone. Most of these grand ships--proudly turning away from the reality of jet travel--kept on churning in the Atlantic for much longer than economics should have allowed. The French were particularly fond of theirs, and one, the Ile de France found the reprieve as a floating set for the reality of Andrew and Virginia Stone's docu-thriller, The Last Voyage in 1960. Author John McCall offers up a novel--based on careful research--of the ship's tragic end, from M-G-M's cameras documenting explosions and flooding of her art moderne ...