Canal+ is launching a pop-up channel, Ciné+ Histoire, that will run between 4 and 31 October.
Ciné+ Histoire will carry more than 40 films and a new documentary. It will be available on myCanal and Ciné+ on demand. Some films will also be broadcast on channels within the Ciné+ linear package.
Titles include Monuments Men, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Invasion Day, De Gaulle and Valmont. The new documentary Une histoire extraordinaire will be broadcast on Ciné+ Première on 20 October. Directed by Anne Martinetti and produced by Otago Productions (Guillaume Lebeau), it “attempts to understand why cinema gives this impression of being able to capture a historical event through its formal mastery of image and sound, its relationship with time… and its illumination, in all senses of the word
Patrice Leconte, Robert Guédiguian, Martin Provost, Lucas Belvaux, Vanessa van Zuylen and Michèle Halberstadt participate.
