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In 1731, nineteen "vampires" were burned at the stake near Olomouc, including seven children. In Banat, a part of present-day Serbia, reports of...

Never before have there been so many people on Earth. The new world creates new challenges for us living together, one of the biggest being the...

On October 9, 1967, the news went around the world: Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was dead. Shot dead in the forests of...

At Cap d'Antibes in the south of France, "Bay of Billionaires" is an official entry on the map. In the middle of the 19th century, the Cap was still...

How can art be liberated from the ethnological context of former colonial rulers? The documentary series presents Africa's new museums. The...

Unearthed in the 19th century in what is now Turkey, the Altar of Pergamon has been on display in Berlin since 1901. This documentary traces the...

Golden Years begins with a farewell that is not a farewell. No goodbye is forever, is it? Tocotronic are concerned with the self-contradictions of...

The composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is still a shining light today. But behind his radiant aura lies a dark shadow. His life was full of...

Italo Svevo (real name Ettore Schmitz) was born in Trieste in 1861 and was almost overlooked as a writer during his lifetime. It was only with his...

Germany holds the largest collection of Cameroonian cultural objects in the world in its Ethnological museums. One important piece is 'Mandu Yenu'...

Since the disappearance of the last male northern white rhino in 2018, only a mother and daughter remain as representatives of the species in a...

Augustus is reputed to have been a violent, adventurous, power-hungry and unscrupulous warlord. Yet as founder of the Roman Empire, he ushered in a...

Chahinez in Merignac was burned to death. Rebeccah stabbed to death in Berlin. Vanessa in Hanover doused with acid. In Barcelona, 5-year-old Leo was...

Documentary film about the largest decentralized monument and art project in the world, and its personal core

For over six centuries, the tradition of the "burrnesha", or "sworn virgins", has endured in rural Albania. When they reach adolescence, these women...