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- Rebel. Poet. Revolutionary: LIEBER THOMAS is a declaration of love to writer Thomas Brasch, congenially brought to life by exceptional actor Albrecht Schuch.
- After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they believe killed her by embracing their own dark nature.
- Three young prodigies and their families exploring the popular and competitive world of piano playing in China.
- Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived. The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.
- The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third generation, breaking the cycle of trauma to free themselves from Auschwitz - forever.
- Yana's company uses actors to turn remote Chinese ghost towns into temporary "international booming cities," tricking visitors into buying overpriced property. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she faces financial ruin. A boom to bust tale set in China's building boom.
- Als sich Christiane F. zu David Bowies Song "Heroes" einen weiteren Schuss Heroin setzt, schauen ihr 1981 allein in Deutschland fünf Millionen Menschen zu. Nie zuvor wurde Drogensucht und ihre Folgen filmisch so radikal umgesetzt. Wie konnte die Geschichte von einem minderjährigen Mädchen, das sein Leben an Drogen und Sex verliert, ein Meilenstein in Literatur und Kino werden? Als der Spielfilm "Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" 1981 seine Premiere in den deutschen Kinos feiert, kommen viele Menschen erschüttert aus der Vorführung. Nie zuvor wurden Drogensucht, Entzug und Prostitution so radikal dargestellt. Vor allem die Darstellerin Natja Brunckhorst und der Darsteller Thomas Haustein beeindrucken das Publikum nachhaltig. Es sind die 80er Jahre in West-Berlin; eine faszinierende Jugendkultur entwickelt sich in der Stadt, in der es weder eine Sperrstunde noch Grenzen zu geben scheint - obwohl sie eine meterhohe Mauer umgibt. Am Bahnhof Zoo - dem Zentrum West-Berlins - herrscht das Elend vor. Hier verbringen Drogensüchtige ihren Alltag, viele davon noch Kinder. Christiane F. ist eines davon. Sie erzählt zwei Journalisten ihre Geschichte. Schonungslos und ungeschönt. Das Buch wird ein Bestseller und kurz darauf wird daraus der erfolgreichste Film der 80er Jahre entstehen. Dem Spielfilm gelingt mit seiner radikalen Bildsprache und modernen Dramaturgie eine Rezeption bis ins Heute. Die Dokumentation geht der Frage nach, wie die Geschichte von einem Mädchen, das sein Leben an Drogen und Sex verliert, ein Meilenstein in Literatur und Kino werden konnte, und zeichnet den damaligen Zeitgeist nach. Nie zuvor veröffentliche Casting-Aufnahmen und Stimmen von einem Großteil der damaligen Crew wie dem Regisseur Uli Edel, dem Drehbuchautor Herman Weigel, dem Produzenten Hans Weth und dem Darsteller Thomas Haustein erzählen von den schwierigen Bedingungen bei den Dreharbeiten, von der Mitwirkung David Bowies und dem Umgang mit dem Erfolg.
- Marimekko's philosophy of life emerged from the fabric designs of Maija Isola, reaching architectural heights together with Maija's large scale prints. Today, Maija Isola's fabric designs have conquered the whole world. But who was Maija Isola? What were the values at the centre of this vagabond's life, and what kind of a legacy did she leave us?
- John is an introvert young soldier serving as a minesweeper in Evros. When he meets Chryssa, a woman passing immigrants from borders between Greece and Turkey, he will try to convince her run away and start a new life.
- Ever heard of the Thorium molten salt reactor? That's hardly surprising, as for 70 years, it has been inexplicably kept under wraps by the nuclear industry, despite the fact it could revolutionise energy production.
- Frau Hitler - present the harmless face and behaviour of a society of murderous followers of the leader of the Third Reich. Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's in-house photographer, was one of the first to gain access to the new Agfacolor colour films developed by AGFA in 1936 in the mid-1930s. With this film material Eva Braun is able to capture the scenery at Obersalzberg. Frau Hitler's films, which were kept top secret during the Third Reich, allow an unusually close look at Hitler.
- In occupied Poland, the Nazis established three extermination camps, one in Sobibor. The inmates had organized an uprising that allowed some to survive and report the horrific events.
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem - the most sacred place in Christendom - is shared by six different Christian sects: Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Armenians, Copts, Syrians and the Ethiopians - all of whom are constantly trying to maintain the ancient, fragile Status Quo. The guardians of the key to the Church are two Moslem families, both of which claim to be the key custodian. And one Israeli Police officer, Johnny, who's responsible for keeping the peace in the Church.
- Madagascar is an ultimate island: Nowhere else on Earth exist so many weird animals in one place. For millions of years, this island lay isolated in the Indian Ocean. Far from the main continents a unique flora and fauna could evolve here. Like the lemurs, a group of prosimians that only live on Madagascar. There are about 100 known species of them - the largest is the Indri. Its home is the rainforest on Madagascar's eastern side. The most adaptable is the ring-tailed lemur, who even can survive in the driest places. But the human population in Madagascar is rising rapidly. To produce charcoal, great parts of the rainforest are being chopped down. Only 10% of the natural rainforest still exists. In his two-part series, wildlife filmmaker Thomas Behrend presents a still - in some areas - mythical world that is on the brink of extinction.
- Actors who worked with and knew Luchino Visconti are interviewed about his life.
- Documentary deals with the murder of a housemaid in Morocco and with the social context behind the crime.
- Dr. Ottara Kem never spoke about his Cambodian past to his German daughters. But on his deathbed he desired to be buried in Cambodia. With the fulfillment of his wish begins an intense, conciliative, and poetic journey through the story of his life.
- Growing to enormous size and living upwards of 100 years, the robber crab faces unique challenges on Christmas Island.
- A docudrama on John F. Kennedy's early travels through Europe with his best friend Lem Billings. A road trip that would lay the foundation for JFK's later love for Europe and its countries, such as Germany.
- Was mögen die Deutschen an den Franzosen? Was mögen sie nicht? Und wie haben sich die ehemaligen Erbfeinde überhaupt versöhnt? "Wie die Deutschen Frankreich lieben lernten" beleuchtet die langsame Annäherung der beiden Länder - aus deutscher Sicht. Dabei steht bislang zum größten Teil unveröffentlichtes Material zur Verfügung: von ehemaligen Austauschschülern und ihren ersten Frankreichbesuchen aus den 50er bis in die 90er Jahre, längst vergessene Filmrollen aus dem Stadtarchiv, Fotoalben und Erzählungen von Gegensätzen, Abenteuern und außergewöhnlichen Begegnungen von Diplomaten, Unternehmern und Übersetzern. Frankreich wird aus einem neuen Blickwinkel betrachtet, jenseits der klassischen Stereotype, der zudem einige Überraschungen bereithält. "Wie die Deutschen Frankreich lieben lernten" erzählt von der Beziehung zwischen Frankreich und Westdeutschland sowie der DDR. Denn auch mit dem Osten gab es wesentlich mehr Austausch als oft vermutet. Helga Klinger studierte in Leipzig Französisch, obwohl sie wusste, dass sie vielleicht niemals in das Land ihrer Träume würde reisen können. Über Jahre begleitete sie als Dolmetscherin in ihrer Heimatstadt Oschatz regelmäßig Delegationen aus Frankreich. Für die drei Brüder Mützelburg hingegen war der Kontakt nach Frankreich immer selbstverständlich. Einst flüchteten ihre Großeltern in den 30er Jahren ins Burgund, dann musste die Familie wieder zurück nach Deutschland. Trotz vieler Kriegswirren hält sich die Freundschaft zu den Franzosen bis heute.
- The exceptional actress Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019, is portrayed. Among others, her son Dominik, Iris Berben, Henry Hübchen and Oskar Roehler remember Elsner. The film is supplemented by archive material from her life's work.
- Erich Maria Remarque, seriously wounded in World War I, starts writing about his wartime experiences. His novel "All Quiet On The Western Front" makes him famous, but also forces him to escape from the Nazis.
- An important pilgrimage site in antiquity, the island of Philae has fascinated travelers for centuries. On this rock rising from the Nile, nicknamed the "pearl of Egypt", powerful rulers have built monumental sanctuaries from the time of the last pharaohs to the Romans. Subsequently, the temples were looted, vandalized or transformed, before the successive construction of two dams in the 20th century sealed the fate of the island. To save the precious vestiges from the rising waters, an international campaign coordinated by UNESCO was undertaken in the 1970s. The objective: to dismantle the monuments stone by stone to rebuild them on a neighboring island.
- Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
- 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.
- Through archive footage, newsreels and authentic photos of the time, the film tells the story of an imaginary character: Clara B., photographer and reporter
- About the "lack of history" of women at the time. This is what the series' ambiguous title alludes to: an unheard (unknown) story and unheard of not yet been told (heard). The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to the present day. This 12-part series was produced by the NDR, the WDR and the HR and was broadcast in 1987 on channel three. The pieces were all made by seven different women filmmakers.
- An exploration of Tokyo: its architecture, design, culture, and what we can learn for the cities of tomorrow.