SUMMER AT LAKE CONSTANCE
Germany's largest lake supplies 4.5 million people with clean drinking water every day, making it the most important drinking water reservoir in Europe. The Lake Constance region i...
IRINA SCHERBAKOWA
Russia is her home and so is Moscow. But she also has Ukrainian roots. The historian and human rights activist Irina Scherbakowa left Moscow head over heels at the beginning of the...
DELICIOUS SOUTH TYROL
South Tyrol builds a bridge between the south and the north. We explore an area on the Austrian border with an "Alpine-Mediterranean" cuisine. In four episodes, we discover amazing...
ARMENIA - THE RETURN OF THE LEOPARD
Arus Nersisyan manages the Arpa nature reserve and a cultural festival in south-western Armenia. Here, on the border with the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, she wants to give ...
THE ALSACE
The Alsace is known for its picturesque landscapes and varied cuisine. The film tells the story of the people in the region and their special love for food.
Among them: a family th...
PEACE MISSION IN ARMENIA
The situation in the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan is tense. A European mission was therefore established in February 2023. The task force monitors the borders and t...
LORIOT 100
In 1923, 100 years ago, Vicco von Bülow was born, known by the stage name Loriot. He made a name for himself as an author, illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, presenter, actor, ...
FOUR BROTHERS, FIVE SISTERS - THE KENNEDYS
THE KENNEDYS: as a family clan, surpassed only by the British royals in its radiance, prominence and mystique. A battered family with facets still little known: nine siblings, incl...
BUFFALO BILL
"Buffalo Bill" toured the United States and Europe with his Western show and thrilled millions of people. He became the first superstar and the founder of modern show business. And...
DELICIOUS CAMPANIA
The series DELICIOUS CAMPANIA explores a region of southern Italy that is full of contrasts: antique and modern, chaotic and creative. In four episodes, different protagonists prov...
THE NAZIS, THE RABBI AND THE CAMERA
Leica cameras were used to take photos that everyone knows; for many renowned photographers they were and are indispensable tools. Barbara Klemm said the Leica was "like a little j...
LAKE LUCERN
Lake Lucerne is the most symbolic lake in Switzerland. Its seven arms reach far into the country. The imposing landscape impresses with its beauty, but also holds challenges. Accor...
FINNLAND'S ICY NORTH
Finland, especially in the snowy winter, is of imposing beauty and one of the last wild regions in Europe. High in the north lies Lapland, by far the most sparsely populated region...
CANADA'S NATIONAL PARKS SEASON III
Canada is the second largest country in the world and the first to recognise the need to protect the diversity of its landscapes for future generations. The CANADA'S NATIONAL PARKS...
POKER FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
The "New Silk Road" will not only accelerate China's economic rise, but also increase its geopolitical influence. The hegemony of the USA is tottering. And time and again, as histo...
NINO HARATISCHWILI
Georgian-born writer Nino Haratischwili is one of the most important literary voices in Germany. Her new novel 'Das mangelnde Licht' reflects a country on the edge of Europe, a cou...
THE BOOKS HE DIDN'T BURN
Adolf Hitler owned 16,000 books at the time of his suicide. Hitler's markings in the surviving volumes provide deep insights into the sources of his "world view". Based on six very...
THE LAST HONOUR
What happens when people pass away lonely and socially isolated? Why is this happening more and more often, and how do we as a society want to deal with this tendency?In Germany, i...
THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE - AN ENGINEERING MASTERPIECE
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of New York's landmarks. Its creation is closely linked to the history of a German immigrant family: The Thuringian engineer Johann August Roebling, his ...
SIDNEY POITIER
Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to receive an Oscar for a leading role. "I came to Hollywood at the age of 22 to embark on a journey that seemed impossible," Poitier sa...
A summer in the Swiss Alps
Between traditional alpine economy, ecology and tourism, climatic changes put people, animals and plants to the test. The famous-infamous Eiger, the Mönch and Jungfrau attract peop...
HANNA SCHYGULLA
At 76, Hanna Schygulla is still making feature films, but also her own short films - and talks very openly and privately about her life and the bridges she built throughout her lif...
DELICIOUS APULIEN
"If God had known this plain of Apulia, he would have moved here", the German-Italian par excellence is said to have once said: the Staufer Frederick II. But the land between two s...
BRUNO GANZ
The look behind the roles of Bruno Ganz, star of the European auteur film, shows the portrait of an actor full of resistance.
RUSSISH ROULETTE
In the 19th century, Baden-Baden was the secret capital of Europe - at least in the summer. The city exerts an irresistible attraction on Russians in particular: on nobility, diplo...
ISLAND WORLD NEW YORK
3-part journey of discovery in the waterscape around New York City
FAMOUS AND INCONVENIENT - LJUDMILA ULITZKAJA
Lyudmila Ulitskaya is the most interesting contemporary Russian author. The geneticist with the analytical view of Russian society has won all the literary prizes in Russia, but is...
FINLAND - SUMMER ON THE LAKE PLATEAU
The land of 1000 lakes with the cleanest water in the world. Finland is of imposing beauty and size and one of the last wild regions in Europe. Not only the landscape, but also the...
DELICIOUS TOSKANA
4-part series on delicious Tuscan cuisine : Even Goethe knew: "Tuscany is not in Italy, but Italy is in Tuscany."
THE WIKIPEDIA PROMISE
In 2001, Jimmy Wales created the first entry on Wikipedia. 20 years later, the website has permeated all areas of our everyday lives. It has over 500 million articles and is the la...
EDDA MOSER
The legendary "Queen of the Night" Edda Moser has been whizzing through space on the Voyager 2 space probe since 1977 as a representative of the human voice for extraterrestrials. ...
THE WONDROUS JOURNEY OF SELMA LAGERLÖF
The film tells the life of this extraordinary writer, who was as modern as hardly any woman before her. It shows excerpts from the famous animated series with Nils Holgersson and o...
LOTTE LENYA - WHY AM I NOT HAPPY?
The singer and actress Lotte Lenya is still one of the most important interpreters of Brecht/Weill musical theatre today. She was the wife of the composer Kurt Weill and fled with ...
OCEAN GIANTS
They were giants of the seas, their names tell history: Titanic, Imperator, Normandie, United States. They connected the continents, brought emigrants, tourists and the mail: luxur...
LOVE RITUALS
All over the world there are love rituals which are designed to help couples keep alive the magic associated with being in love. At first glance, these rituals are astonishing. And...
CANADA'S NATIONAL PARKS SEASON II
Canada is a land of longing and its national parks attract millions of visitors every year. But few know the rugged and sparsely populated north of the second largest country on ea...
DELICIOUS PIEDMONT
For a long time, it was the taste expectation of a generation that only dreamed of the land al pié dei monti - at the foot of the mountains - because of it: the Monchérie cherry f...
ARTE RE: OCCUPATION MINESWEEPER
Mines and unexploded ordnance in the middle of Europe: everyday life for young Ukrainians who meticulously and dangerously clear the ground of unexploded ordnance, booby traps and ...
50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL
On the 28th of June 1969, a street battle that lasted several days broke out around a gay bar on Christopher Street in New York, which would go down in history as the Stonewall Rio...
KING EDWARD II - A DEADLY GAME OF POWER
Edward II of England was a problematic king in a dramatic time, surrounded by enemies: in the north the Scots, on the continent the French, in his own country the barons. He was fi...
FRIEDRICH II - THE STAUFER ETERNAL STRUGGLE WITH THE POPE
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen - an exceptional figure on the Roman-German imperial throne: born and raised in the multi-ethnic state of Sicily. A promoter of science, a reformer, pe...
REIHNOLD MESSNER - MOUNTAINS. ADVENTURE. HOMELAND.
Many consider Reinhold Messner a German, some an Austrian or an Italian. Messner is not all this - he is a South Tyrolean. And thus son and citizen of a country between countries a...
THE ACTOR ULRICH TULKUR - DREAMER AND SEEKER
The film accompanies Ulrich Tukur on the stage of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, where his career began, on the stage of the Elbphilharmonie and into the silence of his Tuscan farm....
RE: CROSSING THE BORDER TO VOTE. ORBÁN BRNGS UKRANIANS TO HUNGARY
Ákos Hadházy is a non-party member of the Hungarian parliament. Once a member of Viktor Orbán's "Fidesz" party, he is now one of the prime minister's toughest opponents. Hadhazy ha...
BUGATTI
Bugatti - a name that stands for speed and beautiful forms. Bugatti, that was a family of obsessives and artists, each member of which found his own medium. The name stands for in...
F. C. GUNDLACH
F.C. Gundlach "switched the light back on" with his photographs. In the Germany of the 1950s, he awakened the longing for travel with his reportages and made Germans dream of a ha...
AGATHTA CHRISTIE - THE QUEEN OF CRIME
Agatha Christie is an author of superlatives: she is the world's most translated writer with a circulation of more than one billion copies and the founder of the modern British de...
THE LEGACY OF ROME
In our series "The Legacy of the Romans," we visit five European regions together with photographer Alfred Seiland that are still marked by their Roman traces today. For his projec...
OMAR SHARIF
Omar Sharif - a face of the Arab world that is hardly imaginable today, when horror images and clichés shape our media perception of this region. The star of "Lawrence of Arabia",...
VACATION IN CHERNOBYL
32 years ago, the Chernobyl power plant suffered the worst nuclear disaster in history. But there is no dead silence in the radioactive exclusion zone. Thousands of tourists flock ...
SUPERPLANTS
Some discoveries sound almost too fantastic to believe. For example, this one: There are plants that can suck heavy metals out of the earth. And to such an extent that they can be...
BILLY WILDER
He was one of Hollywood's greatest writers and directors: born Samuel Wilder in Galicia, Billy Wilder fled as a young reporter from Berlin to escape the Nazis via Paris to New York...
TRANSOCEANICA
One route - one continent: The longest bus route in the world runs from Rio de Janeiro to Lima - without changing buses. It is a journey of superlatives: 6300 kilometers, 100 hour...
10 WINEMAKERS, JOACHIM KRÓL AND THE MOISSONNIER
10 WINZER, JOACHIM KRÓL UND DER MOISSONNIER erkunden in fünf unterhaltsamen und lehrreichen Folgen nicht nur die landschaftlich schönsten Weinregionen Frankreichs, sondern auch die...
THE SEVEN LIVES OF THE SEACLOUD
It is one of the most beautiful sailing ships in the world - and one of the oldest. Built in the 1930s at the Germania shipyard in Kiel, the Sea Cloud still sails the world's ocea...
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
In 2016, Stratford-upon-Avon will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of a man who made the small town famous around the world: William Shakespeare. In his book Is Shak...
THE ROMANOVS
The massacre in the family lasts 20 minutes. The death of the Romanovs marks the end of an era that began with the coronation of Mikhail Romanov as tsar in July 1613. THE ROMANOVS...
KATHERINE HEPBURN
With four trophies in the "Best Actress in a Leading Role" category, Katharine Hepburn remains the undefeated Oscar queen to this day, an eternal Hollywood icon. After 40 roles an...
WILLY BRANDT
"Erinnerungen an ein Politikerleben" ist ein Film über die Bonner Republik und erzählt die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik von den 50er Jahren bis zum Ende des Jahrtausends. Er ist e...
HEAVENLY SOUNDS
He is the boss of one of those family businesses where time seems to stand still. In the 5th generation, Philipp C. A. Klais builds spectacular organs for churches, concert halls ...
PIRATES
Piracy is one of the oldest trades in the world - and it looks like the skull and crossbones business will remain a challenge for civilian shipping in the 21st century. The docume...
100 PORSCHES AND ME
100 PORSCHES AND ME is the search for the 1970s grass-green Porsche I have been dreaming of for years. A road movie about obsession, of my own and that of 100 Porsche drivers who ...
JAMES DEAN
James Dean – alias Jim Stark – crouching on the roadside, giggling childishly into himself. James Dean – alias Cal – lying in a corn field watching the fruit grow. James Dean – al...
THE REVOLUTION OF SERGEJ DIAGHILNEW
He was a Russian European, was neither a dancer nor a choreographer, neither a musician nor a director, neither a writer nor a painter, a manager nor an impresario - and yet Serge...