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Charles de Gaulle
Born: 22nd Nov 1890 Lille, France - Died 9th Nov 1970
Dept: Acting
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 60
Film: 49 (82%)
Television: 11 (18%)
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Filmography
Original title: Un seul héros le peuple
2026
Adam Bensoltane takes us through the birth of Algerian cinema, in his native country, across the ages, exploring its evolution and its impact on the n ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2025
The whole world envies it; it is the symbol of a united France, a source of national pride, almost an idol! The french Social Security system is celeb ... view
Character:
Self (voice archive)
2022
From the first minutes after his inauguration, the newly elected president wants to translate his promises and his campaign project into action. "Chan ... view
Character:
Self
Feb 2022 (first aired)
North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and fi ... view
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage) (5 ep.)
Original title: Electronic Vibrations – Ein Sound verändert die Welt
2022
The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant- ... view
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2021
The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made Fr ... view
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Oct 2021 (first aired)
May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse? ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (2 ep.)
Original title: L'Arc de Triomphe, passion d'une nation
2021
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the top of the Champs-Élysées, is, along with the Eiff ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: François Mitterrand et Anne Pingeot, fragments d'une passion amoureuse
2021
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2021
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Nov 2020 (first aired)
A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to the present day: after the World War II, the left-bank ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Oct 2020 (first aired)
After World War II, the French colonial empire, which dominated the lives of over 110 million people on five continents, collapsed in just under a qua ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (3 ep.)
Original title: André Malraux : l'épreuve du pouvoir
2019
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. O ... view
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Original title: Drôle de guerre
2019
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the ... view
Character:
Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)
Original title: 1958, ceux qui ont dit non
2018
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one whic ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2018
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; bu ... view
Character:
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Sep 2017 (first aired)
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly ... view
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage) (1 ep.)
2017
An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influential fashion figures as 'the best shoe-maker of t ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: De Gaulle, le dernier roi de France
2017
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2016
A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays. ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Pétain, un héros si populaire
2010
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history o ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: De Gaulle et les Siens
2010
In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a start. The start for an essential page of the Histo ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Sep 2009 (first aired)
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (6 ep.)
Original title: La Résistance : Vivre libre ou mourir
2008
La Résistance , is a French television film (docu-fiction) in 2 parts: First part: Live free or die and a Second part: When it was necessary to save ... view
Character:
self
Sep 2006 (first aired)
René Lévesque was a Canadian television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 2006. It stars Emmanuel Bilodeau as former-Quebec premier René L ... view
Character:
Lui-même (images d'archives) (3 ep.)
Original title: J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka
2005
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined ... view
Character:
Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Character:
Charles de Gaulle
Original title: Montréal vu par…
1991
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first ... view
Character:
(archive footage)
1981
A documentary of the decline of America, composed of archival material and exclusive footage, carnage, madness, and mayhem with an unapologetic sincer ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Le fond de l'air est rouge
1977
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: La guerre d'Algérie
1972
A French historical documentary that retraces the events leading up to Algeria's war of independence from 1954 to 1962, based on archive footage and t ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: Dieu a choisi Paris
1969
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1969
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain. ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: Les Neiges de Grenoble
1968
Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languepin take the pulse of the Games, cutting out the ey ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Le Joli Mai
1963
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: La rabbia
1963
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by dis ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1961
An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, film libraries inventoried 11 countries and 3 years ... view
Character:
Self
1948
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war from the days it fi ... view
Character:
Self (archival footage)
Original title: La Libération de Paris
1944
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944. ... view
Character:
Himself
1943
"The crime of the cease fire was to capitulate as if France had no empire" - Charles De Gaulle ... view
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1943
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940. ... view
Character:
Self - with Churchill and FDR (archive footage)
1942
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narra ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)