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📺 Watch next: Europe's Fight Against Cocaine

The European continent is facing a tsunami of cocaine, with the illegal drug being smuggled in via the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal.

In this documentary, we meet the people trying to fight against the drug cartels, who, with powerful speedboats and drones, seem to be one step ahead of coastguards and drug squads.

👀 See it here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIZA5...

2 days ago | [YT] | 25

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In Sweden 🇸🇪, only 0.005% of people own 64% of the national GDP.

Decades of deliberate economic decisions have led to these spectacular inequalities, and Sweden is far from being the only country with these disparities in wealth. 💸

Negative borrowing rates, inflation held at 2% at all costs, a spiralling property market... how did the Swedish economy go mad?


📺 Find out more in our new documentary 'Debt Fever', here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDUQ...

3 days ago | [YT] | 28

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Today, the USA is a deeply divided country. 🇺🇸

It's evident in Piedmont, a region that, though just two and a half hours' drive from Washington D.C, feels like a world away.

Whilst in the Democrat-leaning capital, Trump’s second term in office is viewed with consternation and fear, local people living in Appalachian Piedmont are hopeful for economic renewal with the re-elected president.

Our new documentary 'Trump's America: The Great Divide', follows the highs and lows of politics in everyday life in a divided country.

📺 See it here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiyV7...

5 days ago | [YT] | 40

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📺 Watch next: Cybercrime on Telegram 📺

ID cards, personal data, bank details: You can find it all on Telegram, which has become a huge marketplace for scammers and fraudsters.

In this documentary, we reveal how cybercriminals use the app. 👀

See it here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-7nX...

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 38

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Luxury yachts represent the height of glamour, freedom and wealth for a small facet of our population, but, overall, they're a burden for the planet. 🌎

ARTE travelled around Europe – from Gdansk to Cannes, Barcelona to Ibiza – to meet yacht owners, manufacturers and the environmental campaigners calling for their end.


📺 Find out what happened in our documentary 'Anger at Luxury Yachts', here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgD-...

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 34

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🖼️ This week on ARTE.tv Culture 🖼️

Check out some of our current favourites 💗 from ARTE.tv Culture below 👇 and browse the full channel here 👉 youtube.com/@artetvculture


📺 The Asian Underground Beyond K-pop 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7H0G...

You’ve probably heard of K-Pop, but you're probably less familiar with Indonesian 🇮🇩funkot, Filipino 🇵🇭 budots or Vietnamese 🇻🇳 vina house.

These Asian genres were virtually non-existent in European clubs, but they have found their place in nights organised by Eastern Margins. The London collective brings together Asian diasporas around these alternative scenes.


📺 Biama: The Dance Trend from Abidjan 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4zw...

Coupé-Décalé got the world dancing in the early 2000s. Today, its little brother, biama, is going through the roof. Originating in Yopougon, a busy neighbourhood of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, this genre with an extremely high BPM is also a dance style that gets millions of views on TikTok.


📺 Jakub Józef Orliński: Music for a While 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQo5L...

At 35-years-old, Polish opera singer, model and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.

Now balancing his time between New York 🇺🇸, Warsaw and Barcelona 🇪🇸, we caught up with the countertenor to reveal three facets of his life as a musician.


📺 Marilyn Monroe: Fame at any Price 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6nfN...

From Norma Jeane Baker to Marilyn Monroe: This three-part documentary series questions the Marilyn myth and reveals many details of the movie star’s life. 🎥⭐️

This is the story of a young girl who felt rejected and deprived of love, ❤️ and who decided to get the attention she so desperately needed from her peers through fame.

Our sister channel is home to web series'💻, exclusive interviews 🎙️, music programs 🎶, the best of European cinema 🎞️ and long-form culture documentaries 🎥 that explore art 🎨 from every angle.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 26

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Three months after Nicolás Maduro's kidnapping by US special forces, Venezuelan 🇻🇪civil society is reawakening and challenging the regime openly.

Demonstrators are criticising the government and demanding the release of political prisoners, and oil industry trade unions want to see change.

📺 To find out more, see our documentary 'Venezuela Without Maduro', here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY27z...

1 month ago | [YT] | 38

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Colombia 🇨🇴 is blighted by ultra-violent street gangs with children as young as ten years old being recruited to sell drugs, steal, intimidate and kill.

Linked to drug trafficking, the violence has reached politics, with Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay gunned down in broad daylight by a child.

To learn more, see our documentary 'Colombia: The Return of Child Killers', here 👉 https://youtu.be/RcYsxKwBNJI

1 month ago | [YT] | 44

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In India 🇮🇳 and China 🇨🇳, after decades of preference for boys, baby girls are desirable once more.

The lack of girls in the two most populous countries in the world, a serious demographic problem, is beginning to be addressed: More and more girls are being born.

To find out more, see our documentary 'India-China: The Return of Girls', here 👉 https://youtu.be/zecusGD1G2k

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 41

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📺 Watch next: Yucatán by Train 📺

This documentary takes you on a unique journey of discovery through the Mexican 🇲🇽rainforest of the Yucatan peninsula.

The new Maya train 🛤️ means tourists can visit the famous Maya archaeological sites with ease along a railway aimed at developing the region and showcasing indigenous culture.

👀 See it here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgw53...

1 month ago | [YT] | 25