France 5 is a public television network in France, part of the
France Télévisions group. Principally featuring educational programming, the channel's motto is
la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir (the knowledge network). In contrast to the group's two main channels,
France 2 and
France 3, France 5 concentrates almost exclusively on factual programming, documentaries, and discussions – 3925 hours of documentaries were broadcast in 2003 – with fiction confined to one primetime slot of around two hours' duration on Monday evenings.