Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers from both countries with experienced skippers join forces to make the international waterway between Frankfurt and Szczecin navigable again. Everyone works hard as a team and even a broken-down ship cannot stop them from achieving their goal. A look back at the winter of 1947 with its flooding shows what the freezing of the river and the subsequent thaw can do if the ice floes are not drained into the Baltic Sea via Lake Dammsch in good time. The skippers from both countries have known each other for years and trust each other; the camaraderie that has developed on the Oder unites the people, they control the river in winter for the common benefit of all.

Six fearless surfers travel to the north coast of Iceland to ride waves unlike anything they've ever...

Legendary kayaker Scott Lindgren attempts to complete an extreme, unprecedented whitewater expeditio...

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This film tries to blow the whistle on what it calls the biggest swindle in modern history: 'Man Mad...

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power...

An analysis of the flow of water from mountain to aqueduct, city to sea. Shot at and around the East...

Artist-in-residence in Cherbourg, Laura Molton has worked with the children of the Simone Veil eleme...

Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmo...

Since 24 February 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, several million refugees have al...

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...

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