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A resilient icon, Hildegard Knef's journey spans triumphs and setbacks across six decades. This film showcases her unwavering spirit and artistic brilliance through rare archival footage, celebrating a truly extraordinary woman's life.

A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

In 1919 after WWI, Dörte Helm joins young artists and revolutionaries transforming from Lost to Golden Generation. At Bauhaus, teachers and students shape modern design amid love, betrayal, and paradise lost.

As a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.

End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.

The film uncovers the biggest tax fraud in history: the Cum-Ex scandal. For years, the multi-billion euro fraud involving banks, investors, and lawyers went unnoticed. Based on investigative journalist Oliver Schröm's research (The Cum-Ex Files), director Judith Lentze offers a multi-perspective reconstruction, featuring accused individuals, prosecutors, and whistle-blowers. The documentary reveals how, since the 1990s, sophisticated share deals enabled systematic tax fraud across Europe, and how brave officials within tax authorities and the judiciary pursued justice despite intimidation and legal pressure. Their perseverance turned the exposure of this white-collar crime into a modern-day hero story-about a scandal that still costs society dearly.

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.

Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.

She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.

An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.

West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).

At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.

Follows Soviet composer Shostakovich navigating Stalin's regime. His opera condemned, he narrowly escapes persecution. For decades, he grapples with appeasing authorities while preserving artistic integrity amidst political pressures.

A hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.

When a group of completely veiled women enthusiastically discover Germany's only outdoor pool for women, sparks fly. The pool attendant quits in exasperation and a man is hired to replace her.

An extraordinary woman attempts to complete the world's most extreme swimming challenge. As her incredible journey unfolds, dangers of the sea prove easier to conquer than upheavals of the heart.

As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk whose initial trepidation gives way to profound engagement with the technology.

A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

Rafael - the minister of sports of an unrecognized country, and Natasha - a Russian opera singer, try living together in Abkhazia - a war-torn future-less country. Observing their difficult relations, we see life in a place marked by war and nationalism. The film portrays trapped people dreaming of peace, normality and happiness.

A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.

Michal Waszynski was buried in Rome as a wealthy Polish aristocrat. But this mysterious man, who was Poland's leading 1930s filmmaker, had a lot of secrets and directed his own life in a brilliant way.

Explores the strange history of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who became Bulgaria's tsar at age 6, then was exiled during years of communism and returned to be elected Prime Minister.

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and challenges ideas of conventional reforestation with his simple yet effective method.