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Dokumentarfilm 2023 Min.
BUFFALO BILL
„Buffalo Bill“ tourte mit seiner Western-Show durch die Vereinigten Staaten und Europa und begeisterte Millionen von Menschen. Er wurde zum ersten Superstar und dem Begründer des m...
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Dokumentarfilm 2023 90 Min.
LORIOT 100
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Dokumentarfilm 2023 90 Min.
LAKE LUCERN
A fjord-like landscape with Mediterranean vegetation, lined with snow-capped peaks: Lake Lucerne is Switzerland's most symbolic and multifaceted lake. The imposing nature impresses...
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Dokumentarfilm 2023 2X 45 Min Min.
THE NAZIS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RABBI
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Dokumentarfilm 2023 90 Min.
THE BOOKS HE DID'NT 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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2023 90 Min Min.
Vier Brüder, Fünf Schwestenr - Die Kennedys
DIE KENNEDYS: als Familienclan in seiner Strahlkraft, Prominenz und Mystik nur noch von den britischen Royals übertroffen. Eine geschundene Familie mit immer noch wenig bekannten F...
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Doku-Reihe 2023 4x 26 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 52 Min Min.
NINO HARATISCHWILI
Georgian-born writer Nino Haratischwili is one of the most important literary voices in Germany. Her new novel 'Das mangelnde Licht' is about a country on the edge of Europe, a cou...
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 45 Min.
FINNLANDS 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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 90 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 30 Min.
THE LAST HONOUR
Was geschieht, wenn Menschen einsam und sozial isoliert versterben? Warum kommt das immer öfter vor, und wie wollen wir als Gesellschaft damit umgehen?
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Dokumentarfilm 2022 52 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2022 5x45 and 5x52 Min.
CANADAS NATIONALPARKS SEASON 3
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 53 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2021 4 x 26 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 52 Min.
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.
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 52 Min.
ISLAND WORLD NEW YORK
3-part journey of discovery in the waterscape around New York City
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2021 90 Min.
BERNESE OBERLAND
Between traditional alpine farming, ecology and tourism, climatic changes put people, animals and plants to the test.
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 26 Min.
DELICIOUS TOSKANA
4-part series on delicious Tuscan cuisine : Even Goethe knew: "Tuscany is not in Italy, but Italy is in Tuscany."
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 52 Min.
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. ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 52 Min.
FINNLAND - SUMMER
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 peo...
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Dokumentarfilm 2020 52 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2019 32 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2019 65 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2019 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2019 52 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2019 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2019 52 Min.
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....
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Doku-Reihe 2019 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2019 5 x 43 Min.
CANADA'S NATIONAL PARKS (SEASON 2)
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 e...
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Doku-Reihe 2019 4 x 26 Min.
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...
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Reportage 2019 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 26 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 52 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2018 5X 26 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 52 Min.
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",...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 30 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2018 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2017 90 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2017 5 x 45 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2016 5X 45 Min.
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...
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Doku-Reihe 2016 5x26 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2015 52 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2013 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2013 76 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2013 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2011 90 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2010 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2007 90 Min.
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 ...
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Dokumentarfilm 2005 90 Min.
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...
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Dokumentarfilm 2004 60 Min.
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...