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"What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To...

genus: Documentary

cast: Sarah Willis

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the...

genus: Documentary

cast: Anne Moll

Documentary about the connection between diet and the brain.

genus: Documentary

cast: Felice Jacka

Ai Weiwei is a global star and an enigma. DW followed him for a year for this intimate portrait. The film shows Ai Weiwei at home, at work, and on...

genus: Documentary

cast: Ai Weiwei

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland...

genus: Documentary

cast: Elisabeth Lehmann

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the...

genus: Documentary

cast: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

A look at the past, present and future of NATO, which has shaped Europe's security and defense policies since 1949.

genus: Documentary

cast: Frank Arnold

The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is not only waged with bombs, rockets and rocket-propelled grenades, but also in the media. It is a...

genus: Documentary

cast: Katja Riemann

For more than a decade, wildfires of unprecedented force have been devouring our lives, homes and forests at a steady pace. Each year, 350 million...

genus: Documentary

cast: Cosima Dannoritzer

For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills of the Ural mountains. But it is in this rapidly...

genus: Documentary

cast: Teodor Currentzis

genus: Documentary

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Film featuring Simón Bolivar Orquesta Sinfónica, Gustavo Dudamel and Felix Mendoza

genus: Documentary

cast: Simón Bolivar Orquesta Sinfónica

In the Durban South Basin, Themba lives with his father near to an oil refinery. He’s in love with Khanya, his best friend. Khanya has a new...

genus: Drama

cast: Mthokozisi Biyela

A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and...

genus: Documentary

cast: Gert Heidenreich

The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Even those who are not passionate about...

genus: Documentary

cast: Teodor Currentzis

Marvel and its rival DC Comics were long locked in a battle for supremacy in the superhero universe. But then Marvel revolutionized its storytelling...

genus: Documentary

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US student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp in 2016. Warmbier was released the following year, but he died of...

genus: Documentary

cast: Klaus Scherer

genus: Documentary

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Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder?...

genus: Documentary

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The Mexican Maestro Alondra de la Parra has taken the world's concert halls by storm. Born in 1980 in New York, she decided early on she wanted to...

genus: Documentary

cast: Alondra de la Parra