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The film documents the 80 days of chaos in Hannover, including photographs in black and white of clashes between punks and neo-nazi skinheads. In addition, it presents music videos of Hannover punk bands like Blut + Eisen, Boskops, Schwarz-Rotes Banner and Fortschreitende Angstzustände.
Special care has been taken by International Historic Films to assemble this monumental documentary, which tells the story of what is left for a people after its land has been ravaged by war. Situated between the powerful antagonists Germany and the Soviet Union, the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia bore witness to some of the most ferocious land battles of the Second World War.
At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads south, to Belgrade. The protagonist recollects his impressions of the cities and the state he worked in, speaks of new insights and habits he acquired and thus says goodbye to Germany: Auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland!
Documentary feature about the village 'Rotfront' located in Kyrgyzstan, where half of the inhabitants have German roots. The feature depicts their history, their motivations to stay in Kyrgyzstan and their relationship to Germany.
Souleymane, an Afro-German trans man, travels from Berlin to Dakar to repair his father’s kora, and in doing so, himself. A fragile search for harmony between body, sewing, ocean, heritage, and faith.
The Unanswered Ives is the first film about Charles Ives (1874-1954), an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. The 60-minute documentary sheds light on Ives' life and work in all its facets and inconsistencies. American singer and composer Frank Zappa included Charles Ives in a list of influences that he presented in the liner notes of his debut album Freak Out! (1966). Ives continues to influence contemporary composers, arrangers and musicians. Planet Arts Records released Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra. Ives befriended and encouraged a young Elliott Carter. In addition, Phil Lesh, bassist of the Grateful Dead, has described Ives as one of his two musical heroes.
Recent investigations into the human remains found at Stonehenge have provided new insights into the lives of the inhabitants of this highly symbolic site. For the first time, the demise of a prehistoric society can be traced. What can remains from the period between 3,000 and 2,000 BC tell us about life at that time?
Portrait of the action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.
On June 28th, 1969, the New York Police Department conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. To the surprise of the policemen, the partying bar patrons decided to defend themselves and fought back. Today, this incident is celebrated in a series of colourful and flamboyant parties in cities all over the world. Everywhere, people are remembering the pioneers of the gay and lesbian movement 45 years ago. Five Days in New York takes viewers back to the origins of the gay pride movement in New York City.
Germany’s rising chanson star Alexandra, known for her dark, smoky voice and haunting hits like “Mein Freund, der Baum”, died in a car crash at 27 in 1969. In just three years she’d tasted fame’s glory and its price: lost privacy, relentless pressure, and creative compromise.
A look at the rocky islands in the middle of the Gulf of Biafra in the Bay of Victoria and the people who live there.
Two women remember their time as dissident artists / intellectuals in the DDR.
A hundred years ago, the British and French colonial powers together redrew the borders of the Middle East, foreshadowing some of the chaos of today.
After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War from 1964 -1973. While the world's attention was caught by the conflict in Vietnam, the CIA built the busiest military airport in the world in neighboring and neutral Laos and recruited humanitarian aid personnel, Special Forces agents and civilian pilots to undertake what would become the most effective operation of counterinsurgency warfare. As the conflict in Vietnam grew, the objective in Laos changed from a cost effective low-key involvement to save the country from becoming communist into an all-out air war to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and bomb Laos back into the Stone Age that it had never really left in the first place. Conventional bombs equivalent to the destructive power of 20 Hiroshima-type weapons fell on Laos each year - 2 million tons
An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and cheerful.
Short black-and-white documentary film showing the forging of an anchor.
A film about vendetta families who live and kill by the law of honor.
Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.
Contraception is explained as part of biology lessons in year 10. The lesson begins with the teacher explaining the hormonal mode of action of oestrogen and progestogen, whose explanations are supplemented by intermittent images of the schematic diagram on the blackboard. Prompted by questions from the pupils, the teacher then goes into the production of the corpus luteum and explains its function. She then discusses the effect of the 'pill' as an ovulation inhibitor on the female organism. She explains that the preparations absorb the hormone progestin, which prevents further follicle maturation. Further questions are asked about other contraceptive methods. The teacher first explains the Knaus-Ogino method and then talks about the mechanical contraceptive concepts of condoms and pessaries. Finally, the chemical methods and 'coitus interruptus' are discussed as further options for preventing pregnancy.
Peter Kloeppel researches for the Starfighter widows Since his death, the pilot's widow Elke von Hassel cannot get the thought out of her head: "My husband was No. 57 - the 57th German Starfighter pilot to die." In addition to the event movie "Starfighter - They wanted to conquer the sky", RTL chief presenter Peter Kloeppel goes on a journey through time and devotes himself to the fate of the Starfighter victims. The focus is on the story of the widow Elke von Hassel.
Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely. Varela spent his life building bridges: between Western science and Eastern wisdom, neurobiology and philosophy, abstract theory and practical life. This film seeks to deconstructs the prevailing division between science and art.
A portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, and systems theorist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with footage from Gregory's own films shot in the 1930s with his wife Margaret Mead in Bali and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews.
“The main thing is that I’m fine!” Charly, a family man and consultant in his early 60s, has had to put up with quite a few setbacks in his life. Born as Karl-Heinz in Franconia, he reinvented himself and created an optimized personality under the stage name “Charly”. Never to be vulnerable again – self-protection is his new motto.
The camera calmly explores the holes and fissures of a cliff face, the traces of the ocean. The austere landscape seems to have fallen out of time. Only a few decades ago, fishermen threw their trap baskets into the water from here. Today, the sea around Malta has long been fished dry. Punta, a moustachioed islander, wants to have one more go.
The Rezai's are keeping pigeons on their terrace in Berlin. After having their doubts in the beginning, the five sons are also taking care of the birds. The relationship to the animals reflects their feelings on family and loyalty, and also reminds them of their own childhood and the migration from Afghanistan.
Thomas Schütte's work is always about people. His works have gravity and lightness, but they also show damage, power relations, fears, dependencies, evil, weird and beautiful figures. Schütte studied from 1973 to 1981 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Fritz Schwegler and Gerhard Richter. Today, he is one of the most important contemporary artists and is represented in all major museums and collections worldwide.
A film by John Mikulenka documenting various people's investigation into the mystery of the Zodiac.
Impressions from Bremen's old town and harbor. Finally, images of the ship "Bremen" entering the harbor, showing the rudder of the auxiliary aircraft with a swastika and the swastika flag on the bow of the ship.
In the creation of myths, the origin is androgynous.
Buried beneath the sand for seven million years, a skull is unearthed in Chad that may provide evidence of the oldest known human ancestor.
Fred Manela, a Jew, returns to Berlin for the first time in 50 years and speaks about his experiences during the 'Kristallnacht' on 9th November, 1938.
Right in the heart of the South China Sea, the Philippines find themselves on the front line of the conflict between Beijing and Washington. As tension mounts between the two countries, we take an in-depth look at the situation in the archipelago.
On October 10, 2005, Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor. After 16 years, she now wants to clear the field. We take a look back at the many different faces of our Chancellor. In addition to Wolfgang Bosbach, Gregor Gysi and Kai Diekmann, extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner, presenter Nina Eichinger, comedian Wigald Boning, former minister Annette Schavan, former President of the Bundestag Nobert Lammert, actress Uschi Glas and entrepreneur Gloria von Thurn und Taxis share their very personal views.
Around 80 years ago, the gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted medical experimentation on Jewish girls and women in Auschwitz. The results of those sadistic experiments were used in medicine across the globe. It is possible that German companies played a part in those experiments. Most of the survivors became infertile, and very few of them were later capable to give birth. The Untold Story of Block 10 introduces the audience to those who have survived.
What’s up with love? Can it still be found or is it a utopian dream? What keeps a couple together and where does desire take us? In its search for clues, the film comes upon two completely different couples: a first love and a last love. One begins unexpectedly via Internet, the other culminates in a shared dream of many years in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, Eva Illouz and Sven Hillenkamp discerningly crack the code of the impossible character of love, the findings of which the two couples discount.
There was a time when the DC-3 was the world's most successful aircraft and an indispensable tool: its military version became a crucial factor in achieving peace in various wars and helped many people rise from the ashes during the inevitable humanitarian crises that follow every conflict. But now the Basler factory located in Oshkosh, near Chicago, in the United States, seems to have become a sinister airplane boneyard.
A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.
"RHYTHM & RESISTANCE" tells the story of three protagonists who are involved in the traditional cultural scene in north-eastern Brazil. Until the day the country's presidential elections draw ever closer. Suddenly, nothing seems the same anymore and it's all about preventing the populist Jair Bolsonaro.
In a valley in the Ukrainian Carpathian forest lies the small and forgotten town of Königsfeld. In 1775, the Habsburg Queen, Maria Theresa, sent a hundred foresters and their families here from the Austrian west of the kingdom. All that remains today of the now over two century-old timber industry are factory ruins, potholes in the valley road and an increasingly seldom heard German dialect. Only a few factories survived a flood that cut the village off from the rest of the world, and left it economically isolated. An atmosphere of farewell hangs heavy in the air.
The first visit to the "Toy Village of Pakistan" and its people before it became the toy village.
In Mozambique, mental illnesses are often explained as spiritual problems, which limits access to appropriate treatment and education. Yara finds her way out of depression despite the resistance of her social environment and discovers the strength to talk about her illness.
Eduactional film about the sensual and erotic nature of skin.
Superstar concerts in East Berlin? A year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was an almost unthinkable scenario for many East German rock and pop fans. But suddenly, within just a few months, the top stars were all over the place.