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- Meriora Gillibrand (Ellen Vogel) disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover.
- A boy who is cruel to animals is transformed into a cat.
- A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.
- Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge. Seeing the complexity of human knowledge as an almost eternal subdivision of topics, he believed that accessibility to all knowledge for all contained it itself the road to peace for all of humankind. Most of his professional life he harbored the dream of a Universal City, a focus for "harmonious, pacifist and progressive civilization", which he shared with an American artist, Hendrik Christian Andersen. When Andersen in the mid-30's turned to the Italian dictator Mussolini for support to build the city, Otlet turned away in disgust, but soon found renewed support in the great architect Le Corbusier, who drew up plans and assisted him to until the very end. Paul Otlet can be said to be among the chief architects behind the League of Nations (founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War), a unifying body of peace making among all nations, but even so his dreams of a permanent city of peace workers - politicians, intellectuals, scientist and artists working towards the abolition of war - was never recognized for real. And if it wasn't enough that two world wars brought whole societies to their knees, and with them the real-world effects of his firm belief in pacifism; petty thinking in his own nation also destroyed his library and collections of art and science. But even so his ideas of connecting all knowledge and making it accessible in images, audio and instant connections to anyone, anywhere, remained in the world. His is basically the modern version of the story of the difficult birth of the interconnectednes, which we today call "the Internet". A beautiful documentary, "The Man Who Wanted To Classify The World", was created by Francoise Levie for release by Sofidoc Productions in 2002, following almost 1 year of opening and cataloguing the remains of his personal papers: 100 mice infested crates and boxes documenting every little thing in a life full of dreams, theory, planning, and action. Paul Otlet threw nothing away. Even a torn up letter was saved in a separate envelope. But out of the boxes grew a full life, where almost no endeavour went awry: He had found his voice and conviction in pacifism - springing from the innate need to classify and put in order everything, which mankind discovered, developed and thought - and this certainty carried him through out the whole of his life. Not a Ghandi, not a Martin Luther King working among his people, but an intellectual working from a dream so large that one would almost call it a pipe dream, if not for his total conviction: That peace among all nations was possible, if only there was a common focus on peace for all to see and believe in. Paul Otlet died in the winter of 1944. His decimal classification system, the UDC, is still in use today.
- How do you cope with being told your child has a handicap? All your dreams shatter in the face. But, very quickly, these feelings give way to others. "In order to stay alive, I filmed about me and my son and I toured with a dance troop. If I wanted to help him, I had to take care of myself ". In case of loss of pressure, air hostesses advise parents to put their own oxygen mask on first, then that of their children.
- On October 15th, 1917, Mata Hari was executed by the French for having given military information to the Germans. According to her accusers, the "greatest spy of the 20th century" was responsible for the death of thousands of men. She loved furs, clothes, men in uniform - Intelligent, cultivated, she spoke five languages. Reason enough, at the time, for her to be seen as the devil in the guise of a woman - For almost a century, Mata Hari embodied for most people the image of the femme fatale. The authors of this documentary are telling Mata Hari's real story, the story of Margaretha Zelle. To accomplish this they used irrefutable sources : Mata Hari's personal photo albums and the interrogations carried out by Captain Bouchardon, which were used as evidence in her trial. For the first time, Mata Hari tells her story in her own words.
- A team of intrepid adventurers led by a ten year old boy crosses the meanders of time aboard an enchanted ship to discover the key moments of the ancient Mediterranean.
- A documentary about the family Roels; Belgian film (Marcel) and television (Willy) artists for 3 generations.
- George is shooting a film as a teamwork with the students of a Brussels high school. The theme suggested by Saïda and Julie is tricky: they want George to film their own love story. He accepts and tries to impose the issue of lesbian love.
- The Brussels Music Conservatory Instrument Museum presents their collection of early musical instruments. The origin of the various instrument families are explained, and their evolution from the Middle Ages to the brass instruments of the 19th Century is illustrated both visually and acoustically.
- 2000–200148m7.9 (25)TV EpisodeA geologist without personal fortune, Cyprien Mere has no hope of marrying Alice Walker, daughter of the owner of the richest diamond mine in South Africa. Despite the hostility of the miners in the region, our scientist creates an artificial diamond, the Southern Star, immediately stolen by greedy hands. Alice's father promises his daughter's hand to anyone who finds the thief and the diamond. For Cyprien, a race against time against dangerous rivals enters the Veldt.