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The river Oder: A historical and cultural land-scape churned again and again by the tide of events of the past century. A tale told in concentric...

Cats are the most popular pet in Europe. Around 14 million house pets live in German households alone. But hardly anything is known about the nature...

Cats are the most popular pets in Europe, with twelve million living in Germany alone. And yet: hardly anyone knows how they live and what they do as...

Is 2012 threatening the end of the world? Are unforeseen disasters coming? Do ancient prophecies come true? Are the earthquakes, hurricanes,...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. ...

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...

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

Time and again he challenged his fate at the gambling table. Based on the genesis of the biographically significant novel "The Gambler", the...

Lubow - this is Russian and means love. Her parents knew what they were doing when they gave her this name 80 years ago. Today she is a grandmother,...

Paula Semmelrogge's little store is under threat. But a blow with a frying pan turns the old, withered and stingy retired lawyer and landlord Riemer...

A therapist dies under mysterious circumstances. No one knows how or why. At the Russian-Jewish funeral service, his daughter, relatives and former...

Documentary about a farmer's wife in former East Prussia.

The Nazi concentration and extermination camps were places of incomprehensible cruelty, misery and death. But even here, creation took place....

Three decades ago, they performed as the pop quartet "Altmarkspatzen" and felt great in front of the spotlights of the television cameras that had...

Seven-year-old Moritz lives with his father Ben Sanddorn in Saxon Switzerland. Since the death of his mother many years ago, he has wanted nothing...

Between 1904 and 1908, when Namibia was still called German South West Africa and a German colony, up to 60,000 Ovaherero and 10,000 Nama died at the...

What actually happens to our plastic waste after we throw it in the recycling garbage can? Plastic pollution is becoming an ever greater problem...

In Germany and Russia, people drink the same amount of pure alcohol: ten liters per capita per year. Two Germans and two Russians are...

Climate change has reached the indigenous Nenets people in the north of Siberia. The nomads' herds of reindeer move on thin ice. The warming in the...

In the so-called global age, a man is caught in the trap of time that he has set for himself and got stuck in it together with his freedom. Film...