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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Teodor Currentzis

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarah Willis

Documentary about the connection between diet and the brain.

Genre: 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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ai Weiwei

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cosima Dannoritzer

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simón Bolivar Orquesta Sinfónica

Philipp Melanchthon decisively shaped the history of the Reformation in Germany and renewed German education. In the shadow of his fatherly friend...

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Cast: Detlef Gieß

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Katja Riemann

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

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Cast: Elisabeth Lehmann

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anne Moll

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alondra de la Parra

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gert Heidenreich

The documentary marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Germany's best-known art, architecture and design school, the Bauhaus. Exploring the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laura Wilkinson

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

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The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the...

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Arnold

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Mariam comes from Fana, a town nearby the Malian capital. At 5, she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance, raped by her cousin at 13 and by...

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