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.

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

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

What do Daniel Webster, Dr. Seuss, C. Everett Koop, Robert Frost and 100+ Winter Olympians have in c...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

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

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

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

Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws...

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under h...

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

In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. Its...

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

The beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. For as long as we can remember, the Arctic has been associ...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Ger...

Tom Wallisch and the Good Company crew return with their second full-length film, Guest List, featur...

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and sho...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...