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- In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
- The rise of a poor German lay preacher to one of the mightiest men in Latin America told through the eyes of those who lived in the sect, who endured it, who fought it. All brought to life by unearthed, never before seen archive material.
- After Birgit Meier vanishes in 1989, police missteps plague the case for years. But her brother never wavers in his tireless quest to find the truth.
- This documentary series recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.
- A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
- The history of the powerful weapon on land, the tank. Covers its entire history, from paper designs of the early-1900s to the beasts of the present day.
- This four-part documentary series weaves together rare and exclusive footage of attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.
- "Clash of Futures" created by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio explores the dramatic era of the 1920s and '30s. The eight-part series follows the fates of extraordinary men, women and children from France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Sweden, Poland and the Soviet Union using their own diary entries, letters and memoirs. These are people drawn into the war by their convictions, who with their loves and decisions bring the history of Europe with all its contradictions to life.
- Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the de facto leader of the Free world, told for the first time for an international audience.
- Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
- A blind pianist living in 18th-century Vienna forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight.
- Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
- Look at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. When the communists take power, an endless war begins that changes the face of Afghanistan. Women become pawns in ideological battles. After September 11, 2001, Afghan women hope for the return of peace. They want to take their fate into their own hands, but the spiral of violence continues to this day.
- Portrait of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who posed as a Rockefeller heir for decades, but who was, in fact, a con artist and a murderer.
- 100 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
- 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, our eight-part film about the destruction of Europe's Jews sets out to explore a story whose roots go back to before the start of the 20th century, and which is still playing out today.
- A look at the war ships through history. The battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, submarines and amphibious assault ships of modern warfare.
- Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
- What does it mean to be a war child? This German drama series for children about World War II sets the official version of history against a young and international perspective and shows how children experienced the war in Europe.
- On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as "Barbed Wire Sunday", marking a peak in the era of the Cold War.
- A documentary on the late French jazz pianist.
- TV SeriesThe world is divided once more. World War II and its aftermath have changed the political and moral landscape again. Personal beliefs are shattered and renewed. Following the first two award winning seasons, "14 - Diaries of the Great War" and "Clash of Futures", the project finale is set between 1939 and 1956. History, narrated by the personal life of six protagonists: modern and engaging, factual and fascinating.
- Dramdocumentary based on letters and journals, many of which have never been published before, this tells the story of 1914-18 solely through the eyes of those who lived through it. Bringing together 25 broadcasters from around the world, this is television's global event for the centennial of World War I.In 1914, most people's knowledge of war comes from schoolbooks and newspapers. But when the heir to the Austrian throne is killed in Sarajevo, the system of alliances runs its inevitable course. Featuring the stories of a Scottish auxiliary nurse who accompanies the British army to Belgium as a matter of national Honor, a young Cossack girl who follows her father into battle, a German mother who endures the untimely death of her only son, a French schoolboy who witnesses his country under occupation, a German schoolgirl who is forbidden to use French words in class, and an English journalist whose age is held against him. Their diaries focus on what archive and historical analysis cannot reveal: personal tragedy, love, happiness, pain and grief. Through glorious dramatic reconstruction viewers experience the greatest war mankind had ever seen, not from the perspective of what it was, but of what it was like from within. Great War Diaries reveals the simple human experience of 1914-18, unsullied by historical interpretation.