Maximal Productions

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were predicting the coming of soviet tanks upon the Champs-Élysées. If we gladly remember the turning point of austerity in 83, there were also the wage rises, the fifth week of paid leave, the abolition of death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, or the advent of independent radio stations. Rare archives and accounts by those who were at the heart of this story give an overview of it and shed light on lesser-known aspects.

For almost a decade, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, the crown prince and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, has been shaking up all the pillars of this extraordinary kingdom. The cradle of Islam and the world's leading exporter of crude oil, this Gulf giant has embarked on an unprecedented transformation to meet the existential challenge of the post-oil era. Dreaming of becoming the leader of a stable and prosperous Arab world, MBS is undertaking to transform the austere and rigorous Saudi Arabia into a futuristic utopia. But the rise of tourism, entertainment and the excesses of construction sites are still struggling to make us forget authoritarianism and the repression of opponents. As for the silencing of the religious police, it has not put an end to the oppression of women.

A documentary on 110 years of history of the French helicopter industry.

Tracing the story of a student uprising this documentary explores how the NRA manages to keep a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a strong hold over American society.

The Chinese company Huawei wants to expand 5G worldwide and is well advanced in the development of the technology. With the help of 5G, entire communities can function wirelessly, self-driving cars become possible and advanced medical care can be performed remotely in real time. However, many are worried that Huawei is incorporating backdoors that allow vast amounts of data to be collected and then used by China for espionage.

A summer in the busy daily life of the inhabitants of the Bellevue hill in Marseille, in the Saint-Mauront district, one of the poorest districts in France.

Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, is currently at the center of international covetousness and tensions. In his rivalry with China for technological supremacy, Donald Trump has made the acquisition of this Arctic territory a priority in order to secure American control over rare earth elements, of which Greenland is believed to hold one of the world's largest reserves.

At the head of a China which aspires to become the first world power, the Chinese Communist Party is both the most powerful and the most secret political organization on the planet. For the first time, witnesses from the inside unveil the workings and evoke the backstage of a "black box" where capitalism without limits meets totalitarianism and forced confessions. From the economic opening of the late 1980s to the "zero Covid" nightmare, the party and its leaders have kept the cult of secrecy, the obsession with control and paranoia as their raison d'être.

With massive investments all over the world, China is steadily achieving its goal of becoming the world’s leading superpower, ahead of Europe and even the US. Already heralded by experts as the planet’s largest economy, China is no longer just a major player on the economic world stage. It’s about to start setting the rules.