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- The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
- It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, makes his inauguration speech, he declares Austrian independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union. The Global Union President arrives in a flying-saucer with her retinue of world-soldiers, equipped with death-ray guns, to put an end to the rebellion. The president and the country are put on trial. The Austrian president recounts the country's' long battle for peace, and shows how Austria stopped the invasion of the Turks, and gave the world the operetta and the waltz. He organizes a mass parade with flora floats and a brass band playing the Austrian Freedom Song in order to appeal to the court's impartiality. A 1943 document signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and assuring Austria of independence is presented.
- A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- Documentary using only original colour footage charts the 12 years from Adolf Hitler's rise to power to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Complemented by eyewitness material, tracks the dramatic transformation of Germany into a Nazi state, looks into Hitler's relationship with his lover Eva Braun and replicates pivotal events, including Nazi rallies, the invasion of Poland, Hitler's meeting with Lloyd George, the horrors of Buchenwald concentration camp, Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto, the Battle of Britain and the fall of Berlin.
- A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
- The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
- In this episode of Philippe Truffault's series on Chaplin, award-winning filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne profess their love on the classic "Modern Times". The directors expose their views on the many aspects of the film, Chaplin's brilliancy and they also provide interesting details about the making of Chaplin's masterpiece.
- Christian meets sweet Pratermizzi at the Viennese fair but is entranced by a dancer who never performs without a golden mask.
- Traces the first thirty-four years in the life of Sigmund Freud.
- Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.
- Although the twentieth century transformed Europe faster then previous history, the new century is bound to be even more radical in the rapport between man and wildlife. Some species adapt remarkably, even thrive under urbanization, landscaping, waste dumps etcetera. Many European authorities are starting to see the light and reverse disastrous 'management'. The greatest challenge probably comes from climate change, a timeless phenomenon, but the greenhouse effect means an unprecedented, fast edition.
- Michael takes the first railroad build I the huge Austro-Hungarian empire, from imperial capital Vienna to Adriatic main port Trieste. In Vienna he indulges in grandeur and spy (hi)story, then passes the greatest Alpine tunnel of its age to Graz, rural Styria's capital and Austria proper's second city then, now remarkably modern in harmony with its Baroque heritage. Then to Lublijana, capital of Slovenia (Catholic ex-Yugoslavia) and finally Trieste, then Italian jewel in the crown of Habsburg's Veneto-provinces.
- 2012–7.2 (15)TV EpisodeMichael takes trains trough northern Italy, which was only partially integrated into the present country. He starts in Genoa, the world class main port of Liguria, with grand monuments from its golden age around 1700 and later industrial boom. Next along the Italian Riviera to the luxury marina resort of Portofino, key in the occupation of Libya and preserved miraculously thanks to a Britton, finally to the vast naval base of La Spezzia. Up the Po plain to ancient university city Parma, famous for its aged ham. Then to Trento, capital of a part of Tyrol Austria lost in World War I. Finally to the Alpine town of Brenner, which gave its name to the mega-tunnel at the Swiss border.