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THE BIG BLUFF – MASTER SWINDLER THE STORY

Imposters appear as gentlemen amongst criminals. Their scams are always audacious, normally genius and often simply unbelievable. Unbelievable, but true. Why do we always fall for the fraudster’s tricks? By means of the coups of the third exceptional conman the film illuminates…

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Bougainville’s forgotten voyage 1766-1769

April 6th 1768 – French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville reaches Tahiti. An encounter, which will change the Island and Europe forever. It is the first French world journey and the first scientific focused maritime expedition for information. A young female botanist…

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The journeys of Prince of Wied

The last witness of Native American civilization was a Prince from Prussia. A feat that not even Alexander von Humboldt had achieved was accomplished by the Prussian Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied: in 1815, he ventured on an expedition along the Eastern coast of Brasil….

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Casanova – the man behind the myth

No-one has been as famous for his art of seduction and love affairs as he: Giacomo Casanova. In his memoirs, the 18th century libertine writes extensively about his numerous amorous encounters. Far from being a Don Juan or a cold-hearted womanizer, however,…

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The Shakespeare Enigma

It’s one of greatest literary mysteries of all time: who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? And there really is a mystery. How could the Stratford grammar-school boy, son of a glove-maker, become the universal genius who wrote the greatest plays of all time? Why…

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Henry VIII. – Murderer on the throne

Early morning, 19th of May 1536. A young woman, barely thirty years old, ascends the steps to the scaffold in the courtyard of the Tower of London. She has been accused of adultery and witchcraft: Anne Boleyn, the wife of King Henry…

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The Last Battle of the Celts

In the winter of 53/52 B.C., the Gallic leaders gather in a remote forest to prepare for the approaching war. For years, Caesar had continually weakened their country, kidnapped their women, robbed their grain and taken hostages. Using his skilful policy of…

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The Dream of Taj Mahal

In 1556, in the city of Delhi, a thirteen-year-old boy named Akbar ascended the throne. He was to become the greatest ruler of his era on the Indian subcontinent: a fierce warrior and a founder of peace, a rigid autocrat and a…

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Buddha – The Way to Enlightenment

Siddhartha Gautama was no liberator or reformer. He was the “enlightened” one – a title, given to him by his followers. In his state of total enlightenment, Buddha could have left the world forever, and entered long awaited Nirvana. He remained, however,…

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Mohammed – The Voice of God

A Christian monk was said to have recognized the boy Mohammed, as the successor to Jesus, by the signs of a birthmark, and a cloud above him in the Syrian Desert, that protected him from the desert heat. The boy from Mecca…

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