
Directing
Cédric Tourbe
Born
1972-03-29 (54)
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
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.
Known for
7.7“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.
USA - The Conservative Revolution
2026
7.8From 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
2023
7.2The 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
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Foccart, l'homme qui dirigeait l'Afrique
2010
7.5Vladimir 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
2017
8.2How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
2019
Film credits
Series credits
7.7“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.
USA - The Conservative Revolution
2026
7.8From 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
2023
Behind the camera
7.2The 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
2020
7.2The 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
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Foccart, l'homme qui dirigeait l'Afrique
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Foccart, l'homme qui dirigeait l'Afrique
2010
7.5Vladimir 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
2017
7.5Vladimir 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
2017
8.2How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
2019
8.2How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
2019
7.0Between February 4 and 11, 1945, three months before World War II ended in Europe, US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet leader Stalin met in the Ukrainian city of Yalta to discuss how the continent should be politically reorganized after the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany.
Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin: The Road to Yalta
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Staline, Roosevelt, Churchill : Yalta, la paix impossible
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Devenir président et le rester: les secrets des gourous de l'Elysée
2011
