The opening of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans as it probably did to the whole world...
In this series we look at the past 40 years of Afghan history through the individual perspectives of men and women, who played a decisive role or had a unique point of view on thes...
Bobby Kennedy’s passion and vision helped his brother John get elected President, sparked a country’s conscience, guided the nation through terrifying crises, and inspired a genera...
Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story, Sergei Loznitsa leads us into the land of crime without punishment – a journey into the abyss from the director of "In the Fog".
Cuba - the island where dreams clash. It was the gateway to the New World, the port of call for the American underworld, a crossroads for drug smuggeling...
This docudrama reveals the man behind the totalitarian system of the East German secret service “Stasi“: his motivation, his power, his career and his failure.
This compelling documentary follows the 20 year odyssey of a determined musician and historian who, for the very first time, despite the wrath of scholars worldwide, challenges and...
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 2015, the 8-part series draws attention to what we all believe we have long known - and yet can...
In Germany there are ten million legal firearms in private hands. And 20 million illegal, according to estimates. Who needs so many weapons and for what?...
22 years after reunification, people from East-Germany recall their lives, their dreams, their worries and their fears during those fateful months between the fall of the Wall in 1...
"Seeing somebody get shot is less powerful than seeing the reaction on somebody else's face; observing it, experiencing it. I am that human reaction." (Hans Zimmer)
Witnesses tell not only of the terror of flight but also of responsibility, guilt and innocence, hopes and fears in the years before and during the war.
They are the only men who are allowed to kill. They know death. Every one of them kills in his own way. Always at dawn. They execute our justice. They are a part of us...
