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To save refugees from drowning, the crew of rescue ship "Lifeline" has to endure opposition in their hometown Dresden. But even at sea, in an attempt to save lives, their project is increasingly turning into a fight for the European idea.
a story about human compassion, about Hans Breuer, who cannot sleep at night knowing there are refugees who need help, two hours’ drive away from his bed.
The Vietnam War was the longest conflict of the 20th century. It was the first time that the media brought a war into our living rooms. This had consequences: Its images are deeply engraved in our memories: the widespread dropping of napalm bombs, the naked girl fleeing screaming from a cloud of fire. This war came to an end on May 1, 1975.
Documentary, showing the last cantonal assembly that was held only by men in the town of Hundwil (Appenzell AR), Switzerland in 1990.
Wally's life is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. Helplessness, excessive demands and desperation shape her childhood - a daily struggle for survival.
The Bavarian Motor Works started out in 1916 as a small producer of aircraft engines. Yes, its origins lie in the air. The asset that BMW is best-known for today is actually the last product to be added to its portfolio. It was only in the 30s that BMW built its first car. Since then, the company's 100-year history has seen technological innovations, racing victories and also severe crises.
During an argument with his father, the bombshell drops: 21-year-old Jens learns that the man he thought was his father is not his biological father. Years later, he rummages through old slides and Super 8 films—and finds a clue that leads to Lebanon.
Marc Burth wants to find the best religion to raise his children in, but living in a family that boasts a Muslim, a Catholic, a Jew, a Shaman and several Atheists that's not going to be easy. This highly amusing and revelatory HD documentary playfully addresses the questions so many of us struggle with.
The devastating forest fires in Los Angeles are described in three acts.
The film tells the story of the rise and fall of Julian Assange. Once a celebrated publicist and over the years decried as an eccentric, spy and rapist. The documentary shows a differentiated picture of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. For the first time in German television Assange’s fiancée gives an interview. Further interviews, amongst others, with former CIA-director Leon Panetta, Edward Snowden and John Shipton.
Documentary by Tillmann Scholl
A filmmaker in search of his father, who joined the MRTA rebels when he was only one year old. As an adult he sets out on his trail, a track that will take him from Berlin to Stockholm and from there to Lima. What kind of man, political agitator, terrorist, what kind of father is the prisoner Peter Cárdenas Schulte, a.k.a. "Alejandro"?
In 1936, the Kiel dentist Dr. Rudolf Schultz bought a film camera to capture the development of his son Dieter. Over the years, many film rolls were exposed - they all tell much more than just the story of this one person, they also bear witness to the city on the Förde before and during the war. The result is much more than an atmospheric insight into a private family history; it is also and above all a fascinating time document of the city Kiel. The visual material of Dr. Schulz shows unique quality. This man was certainly a dentist; but he was also a great talent at the film camera!
"Dracula - The true story of the vampire" - Reveals how the vampire myth came into being, when the first "vampire epidemic" broke out, and why Count Dracula has since conquered the world.
Documentary about the helpers on the world's highest mountain.
A time-capsule of Scottish youth surrounding the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum, featuring 2014 interviews, personal archive footage and follow up interviews from 2024.
Filmed during countrywide local elections of mayors and legislatives between November 2022 and February 2023, “An Island” is a documentary about the people of Taiwan, living their lives alongside permanent threats from the outside. Spanning the whole island and the life of its people from the country-side to city-life, the film invites the viewers to immerse themselves into the daily life of this uncertain period.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Yana’s deeply personal journey unfolds against a backdrop of chaos and constant feeling of war. She navigates heartbreak family conflicts and a blossoming love with Yaroslava who dreams of defying oppression while battling lung cancer. Their story evolves in a city consumed by violence and oppression.
Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods.
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
A short film about toothpaste.
Four queens, four famous names in Prussian history: Luise, Augusta, \"Vicky\" and Auguste Viktoria. Who were they? Glamorous, rebellious, virtuous, conservative or even scheming? In a panorama from the end of the 18th century to the After the fall of the Prussian monarchy, the documentary opens up a new, female perspective on the military state of Prussia.
Jens is nine and has physical and metal disabilities since his birth. The film accompanies Jens and his parents in their everyday life.
Vladimir Pilipenko built a submarine. Life size. And in the village lake, his submarine worked. But Vladimir has set his sights on something bigger than the local pond. Can his sub really dive in the Black Sea?
Walzer is an excerpt taken from a work by the same name. Pina Bausch premiered it in the summer of 1982 at the Carré Theatre in Amsterdam and filmed it in the autumn of the same year in the theatre of Wuppertal. When in 1986 the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg asked for a recording, Pina Bausch selected and edited the material into the film Walzer.
The queen of the black market is my grandmother, as I imagined her in the post-war period, but also her favorite coffee pot, which escaped from my grandmother and mysteriously survived violent attacks.
A cinematic diary of a journey through the land of smiles and tears. It's a deeply personal film about the sense and nonsense of travel, about setting off, about being a stranger and different, about wonder, love, freedom, the wonder of nature, and human dignity.
Long before there were computer-animated images, Oskar Fischinger compiled abstract forms, pulsating color patterns and moving animations and combined them with music in short experimental films. In this documentary, Harald Pulch sheds light on the life and work of the "father of the video clip" and also shows an exclusive interview from 1993 with Elfriede Fischinger, the filmmaker's widow and colleague. In it, she talks about the couple's life as artists, who first worked in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and finally in Hollywood.
Documentary accompanies the first generation of guest workers from the 60s and 70s in Germany and how they live today.
Documentary film.
The Laddakhis, high up in the Western Himalayas, have a strong connection to the psychic energies of the gods and demons through their belief in Tantric Buddhism. People in the valley say of the Geshe (a methaphysical professor) that he can fly if he wants to. But using magic is immoral for the Buddhist. Nevertheless, a young man seduces the woman of his desire with magical powers. In a breathtaking landscape under a crystal-clear blue sky, a life unfolds in harmony with the universe, carried by an ancient consciousness.
The two atheist documentary filmmakers Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright use their cameras to observe something that does not normally receive much public attention: they accompany a group of young men and women in the final phase of their training to become pastors.
A bicycle ride through the streets of Shanghai between spring and summer 1984, from the suburbs to the center of the city.
During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's “Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)” is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on the livestream. A paranormal phenomenon?
The film depicts the mission of German paratroopers during the early days of World War II, focusing on their operation in the Netherlands. The first reel shows the paratroopers assembling at a field airport, receiving a motivational address from their commander about their mission to prevent a French attack on the Ruhr by keeping bridges in Holland open. The second reel captures the mass jump over Moordijk, the landing, and the subsequent combat activities, including securing bridges, capturing Dutch prisoners, and thwarting enemy attempts to destroy bridges. The third reel continues with ground combat, the capture of Moordijk, and the strategic advance of German troops, despite French intervention. The paratroopers successfully hold out for three days and two nights until German combat troops arrive, contributing to the rapid surrender of Holland. The film concludes with the paratroopers meeting up with advancing German forces, celebrating their victory.
“A film made to illustrate the changing scenery, architecture, garments and face of the Danube Bank.” - BFI.
A documentary by Dror Dayan and Susann Witt-Stahl, Germany 2021
Ulrike and Olli meet in 1985 while on tour with Circus Roncalli. He is living his childhood dream as part of the successful clown duo 'Illi & Olli'. She has recently left her life as a nurse in Berlin behind. When the season is over, she moves with him to Switzerland. What began as a circus fairy tale eventually becomes reality, amid creative crises, raising children, and ultimately growing older.