Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential...
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
A feature film that traces the 50-year journey behind Confessions of Felix Krull, revealing the writer’s hidden struggle with his...
Confessions of Thomas Mann, Confidence Man
She was the first to study gorillas in their natural environment: the high mountains of Rwanda, where she settled in 1967. For nearly twenty years,...
Dian Fossey: Ihr Leben für die Gorillas
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event...
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Arus Nersisyan manages the Arpa nature reserve and a cultural festival in south-western Armenia. Here, on the border with the Azerbaijani exclave of...
Armenia - The Return of The Leopard
Many people have Route 66 on their bucket list: To ride it once, from Chicago to Los Angeles, on a Harley. Or in an old American road cruiser. And...
100 Years of Route 66
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann und Lübeck
The biography of Hildegard Knef – born in Ulm in 1925, died in Berlin in 2002 – reflects post-war and divided Germany. It also reflects...
So oder so ist das Leben – Hildegard Knef
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout...
The Kennedy Dynasty
The second episode is a journey of discovery through the southern Irish Midlands. This is where the heart of Ireland beats. Largely unknown, this...
Irlands Unbekannte Mitte - Der Süden
In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of...
The Wikipedia Promise
A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he...
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
100 Porsches and Me is the search for a grass-green Porsche from the 1970s that i dreamt about for years.
100 Porsches and Me
Jane Austen - Literature and Passion
Monica Vitti, die Königin des italienischen Films
Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired...
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
The Bernese Oberland - Summer in the Swiss Alps