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TV5Monde 2022 - 2 seasons 20 eps Returning series

Crazy Borders

2022 - 2 seasons 20 eps

Season 2

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Season 1

Season 2

11 min

S2 · E1 · Sep 19, 2024

Cooch Behar - An Enclave Labyrinth Episode 1

Along the India–Bangladesh border, a once-impossibly complex mosaic of enclaves created a geopolitical puzzle where territories nested inside each other like Russian dolls.

11 min

S2 · E2 · Sep 19, 2024

Rockall - The Disputed Atlantic Rock Episode 2

A remote rock in the North Atlantic became the subject of competing territorial claims, symbolizing how even uninhabitable land can trigger geopolitical tension.

11 min

S2 · E3 · Sep 19, 2024

Neutral Moresnet - A Tiny Shared State Episode 3

Once jointly administered by Prussia and Belgium, this zinc-rich micro-territory existed for over a century in a legal grey zone shaped by economic interests and diplomacy.

11 min

S2 · E4 · Sep 19, 2024

Birobidzhan - The Soviet Jewish Experiment Episode 4

In the Russian Far East, a region was once created as a Jewish homeland within the USSR. Today, it remains a rare cultural and historical experiment still visible in architecture and language.

11 min

S2 · E5 · Sep 19, 2024

Steinstücken - Not Quite in West Berlin Episode 5

During the Cold War, this small West Berlin exclave was physically isolated inside East Germany. Access was so restricted that residents once depended on allied helicopters, highlighting the absurd realities of divided Germany.

10 min

S2 · E6 · Sep 19, 2024

Madha & Nahwa - A Double Enclave Puzzle Episode 6

Between Oman and the United Arab Emirates lies a rare enclave-within-an-enclave structure, where borders interlock in one of the world’s most intricate territorial arrangements.

11 min

S2 · E7 · Sep 19, 2024

Principality of Arbézie - A Border Made for Stories Episode 7

A hotel straddling the Franco-Swiss border became an unlikely diplomatic landmark, blending hospitality, wartime history and self-styled local monarchy in one surreal location.

11 min

S2 · E8 · Sep 19, 2024

French National Domain in the Holy Land - Under Protection Episode 8

In Jerusalem, several religious sites are still tied to France through an extraterritorial legal status. The episode explores how historical agreements and diplomacy continue to shape access and control in one of the world’s most sensitive cities.

11 min

S2 · E9 · Sep 19, 2024

Vennbahn - A Railway That Drew Borders Episode 9

A former Prussian railway line turned Belgian territory carved narrow corridors through Germany, creating multiple enclaves and one of Europe’s strangest modern borders.

11 min

S2 · E10 · Sep 19, 2024

Martín García & Timoteo Domínguez - One Island, Two Nations Episode 10

At the confluence of Argentina and Uruguay, shifting river borders turned two connected islands into a symbolic shared space shaped by treaties and geography.

10 episodes in Season 2

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Enclaves, loaned territories, disputed areas and microstates: This is the series that looks at places with absurd borders.

Documentary War & Politics

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Cast

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Olivier Marchon

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Olivier Marchon Creator

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Olivier Marchon

Total runtime 3h 20m · Episode length 10 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

May 23, 2022

Latest episode

September 19, 2024

Status

Returning series

Networks

TV5Monde · arte.tv

Country

France

Type

Documentary

Episode length

10 min

Total runtime

3h 20m

Original language

French

Production

A

ARTE GEIE

Production

G

Gedeon Programmes

Production

T

TV5 Monde

Production

France

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Languages

Original title

Bienvenue en Géozarbie

Spoken on screen

French

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