Directing
Mar 28, 1972
Cédric Tourbe
Directing
Biography
Cédric Tourbe (born March 19, 1972) is a French documentary director and screenwriter specializing in 20th-century political and contemporary history. After working as a teacher and graduating from Sciences Po Paris, he transitioned into filmmaking. He directed his first major documentary in 2010, "Foccart, l'homme qui dirigeait l'Afrique". Since then, he has directed over a dozen historical documentaries and multi-part television series primarily for networks like Arte and France Télévisions. His filmography focuses heavily on the mechanics of political power, geopolitics, and Soviet history.
Feature Films (2)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Television & Series (2)
From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern United States of America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands of a few families with enormous fortunes.
Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth
“Make America great again”: Ronald Reagan coined this slogan long before Donald Trump. This three-part documentary shows how highly conservative ideas became increasingly widespread in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, leading to Reagan’s election as president in 1980.