Documentaries

For 18 years “Speichelbroiss” have been making noise in the Bavarian backwoods. With “Chao Leh” they have written a German-Punk-Hit for Asia. Their song about the sea nomads called Chao Leh tells us about a clan that doesn’t seem to fit in…

“Few people can realize their dreams. But if you can’t get so far as even to dream, you’re never going to realize a dream, any dream, let alone your own dream.” In a far corner of Russia is a place called Mongun…

Tunisia: Many tourists only know the country from a hotel deckchair, or adventures on the beach. But the beaches are just the golden border to this radiant country. The country offers a great variety of landscapes and cultures. The mountain scenery and…

In the middle of the North Pacific, 3.000 kilometers far away from the next coastline, a lonely raft floats eastwards. Details: ZDF, Arte, 1996 Length: 43/53 minutes Written and directed by: Eike Schmitz Camera: Lars Barthel, Holger Rusch, Tim Severin, Rex Warner…

In the year of 375 AD, Europe is terrified, as if the earth were shaking. Wild hordes of horsemen, coming from the vast steppes of Asia, overrun Europe’s eastern borders. Shocking messages of murder, torture and scorched villages precede their onslaught. The…

Sommersdorf in Germany’s Middle Franconia looks like a knight’s castle straight out of a picture book. However, the Franconian idyl conceals a creepy secret, which is discovered, when the French army attacks the Prussians on a stormy evening in October 1806. Several…

Was Columbus the first explorer to discover America? No! Among many scholars today, this is an indisputable fact, but the idea is not as popular as you might think. Details: ZDF, ORF, 1992 Length: 45 minutes Written and directed by: Jens-Peter Behrend,…

In the small East German town Genshagen-Ludwigsfelde, the past, the future and the present collide. It is during the decline of East Germany; Mercedes-Benz is coming to build Europe’s most modern truck plant and “ring in a very, very new era”. The…

Adalbert Heide was one of many German youths, whose dreams of adventures in foreign lands were awakened by the books of the German writer Karl May. Moreover, this young boy from a remote area of Germany bordering Poland never forgot his childhood…

The earth quaked heavily; the sea overflowed its shores. In this way the warlike people of Atlantis sank under the earth on that terrible day and night, and their island sank into the waters. That is the first account of a disaster…