LOCARNO: Beginning in dense darkness, which magnifies slight sounds, Pascal Magontier’s “The Final Passage” is a seeming 28-minute traveling shot through the caverns and natural vaults of southern ...

By wile and charm — and through contacts with the French Ministry of Culture — Werner Herzog, the prolific documentarian and fiction director (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans) talked his ...

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Object Details Author Chauvet, Jean-Marie Brunel Deschamps, Eliette Hillaire, Christian Date 1996 Type Books Physical description 135 p. : col. ill., map ; 32 x 27 cm Place France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc ...

The new Werner Herzog documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is comparatively thin on the cuckoo German's trademark perversity—except when you consider that he has made a 3-D documentary about ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to contain ancient cave paintings dating back more than 30,000 years.

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...