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Buffalo Bill 2024 star_border 8
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from working as a bison hunter to becoming an international showman who practically created pop culture's idea of the Wild West.

Loriot 100 2023 star_border 8.5
Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

The Kennedy Dynasty 2023 star_border 7.5
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout the 20th century; of nine brothers who had truly extraordinary lives, marked by both greatness and tragedy: the story of the Kennedy family.

Brooklyn Bridge: An Engineering Masterpiece 2023 star_border 9

The Nazis, Photography and the Rabbi 2023 star_border 8
The extraordinary story of German businessman Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956), second only to his father in ownership of the optics company that developed the famous and highly successful Leica camera, and his heroic struggle against Nazism.

The Books He Didn't Burn 2023 star_border 8

Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte 2023 star_border 9

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary 2022

Finnland - Winter im hohen Norden 2022 star_border 9

Russisch Roulette: Dostojewski und die Sehnsucht nach dem Westen 2022
In the 19th century, Baden-Baden was the summer capital of Europe. The city is particularly attractive to Russians. With Dostoyevsky and Turgenev come two authors who share a deep dislike for each other: Turgenev loves the West; Dostoyevsky hates him. He is passionate about playing roulette, a game that is banned in his homeland...

Hanna Schygulla 2021

Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? 2021 star_border 8

The Wikipedia Promise 2021 star_border 6.6
In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf 2020 star_border 4
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World 2020 star_border 7
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 was a man full of contradictions, who enjoyed card games more than movies; he was an eternal nomad who spent half his life in a hotel.

Edward II of England: The Unhappy King 2019 star_border 6.5
His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arguments to do so. He would not have failed if he had proved himself to be an energetic king. But Edward II of England (1284-1327) never was a king like Edward I Longshanks, his father, or Edward III, his son, were. And his end is shrouded in myth and mystery.

Der Schauspieler Ulrich Tukur - Träumer und Suchender 2019

Hollywood's Second World War 2019 star_border 8
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.

Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey 2018 star_border 7
In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime 2018 star_border 7.5
British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.

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Reinhold Messner - Heimat. Berge. Abenteuer. 2019

Love Rituals 2019

Ozeanriesen 2019 star_border 8

Marie meets Marx 2018

Great Literary Tour 2016

Kanadas Nationalparks 2016