14 Feb 2009
The Real Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's journey from his early years as a rising politician through his presidency, the Civil War, and his untimely death
1958: Those Who Said No
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
Top Billed Cast
Pierre Pflimlin Self (archive footage)
Raoul Salan Self (archive footage)
Jacques Massu Self (archive footage)
Pierre Joxe Self
Jean-François Sirinelli Self
Charles de Gaulle Self (archive footage)
Pierre Mendès France Self (archive footage)
Charles Hernu Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier Self (archive footage)
Anicet Le Pors Self
François Mitterrand Self (archive footage)
Michel Debré Self (archive footage)
Antoine Pinay Self (archive footage)
Guy Mollet Self (archive footage)
Jean-Louis Debré Self
Félix Houphouët-Boigny Self (archive footage)
Claude Bourdet Self (archive footage)
René Coty Self (archive footage)
Fernandel Self (archive footage)
Yves Montand Self (archive footage)
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