Mystères d'archives: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Mysteries in the archives, ten investigations into ten events of the twentieth century that have marked our memory and our imagination. What do the archival images tell us? What are their origins, their hidden meaning? Ten unpublished surveys reveal the secrets of audiovisual archives. "Images tell stories, we tell the story of images." Viallet examines films that are often forgotten or ignored, shot during historical events: Marilyn Monroe's tour of Korea in 1954, the American atomic tests at Bikini in 1946, the crossing of the Atlantic by aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927, the entry of General de Gaulle into Paris in 1944, the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963 ... All of them fulfill a decisive function in the great evolutionary narrative of the television epic. Viallet skips over and over again the sequences, zooms in on details, explains the meaning of this or that object, draws the eye to what to see behind the facade.

Series details

• Title: Mystères d'archives
• Format: Documentary
• Language: French
• Premiere date: 2009-07-10
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: ARTE
• Network country: France
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 56136
• IMDb ID: tt3088600
• TVDB ID: 266815

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-07-10; final listed air date 2009-08-28; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2010-04-28; final listed air date 2011-08-28; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2012-09-15; final listed air date 2013-03-02; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 2015-11-02; final listed air date 2015-11-16; episode order: 10.
• Season 5: premiered 2017-10-14; final listed air date 2017-12-16; episode order: 10.
• Season 6: premiered 2019-10-27; final listed air date 2019-11-17; episode order: 5.
• Season 7: premiered 2021-06-19; final listed air date 2021-06-26; episode order: 5.
• Season 8: premiered 2023-03-03; final listed air date 2023-03-31; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

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