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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. 👀

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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-...

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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.

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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Should we bring back military service?

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reignited an old debate: Does Europe need conscription in order to be war-ready?

Or is compulsory military service a relic from a bygone era?

In this episode of 'Agree to Disagree', Prof Dr Bertolt Meyer, Prof Patrick Sensburg and Dr Andrea Ellner take on this age-old debate.

📺 Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oganL...

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📆 On Sunday (April 12), Hungarians take to the polls for the parliamentary elections.

After 16 years in power, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing an unprecedented challenge from opposition leader Peter Magyar.

The election will be pivotal for Europe at a time when relations between Hungary and the EU are increasingly strained.

📺 For more information on the election and Hungary today, see our playlist 'Hungarian Elections 2026 🗳️', here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAx-x...

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📺 Oscar-winning short film 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3TA...

This year's Academy Award winner for Best Short Animation is set in Montreal in the early 1900s and follows a poor boy who is besotted with a young girl with special powers.

📺 Irish Trad Futurism 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCW2S...

In Ireland 🇮🇪, a new generation of musicians and artists are reinventing folk traditions.

From Acid Granny, who expresses a unique anarchic Irish humour, to Rois, who is reinventing traditional singing, and Lullahush, who explores Irish identity with a mix of field recordings and samples of folk music.

📺 Northern Soul 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnZ0...

Northern Soul is a working-class British 🇬🇧 subculture that has been around for decades: a party scene in cities and towns of the Midlands and the north of England that venerates rare records of Black American soul music with a high tempo and a heavy beat.

Recently its been experiencing a resurgence as younger clubbers discover this unique culture.

📺 Martin Scorsese - My Life in Music 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJraZ...

For Martin Scorsese, music is a vital component in his films - almost as important as the actors themselves. 📽️

The American filmmaker works with great composers to create the soundtracks for his films, but also uses pre-existing music, which is equally important for him.

In this documentary, he also talks about the role music played when he was growing up in New York's Little Italy. 🗽

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.

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