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.

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

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

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

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...

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...

Documentary about the degraded rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand.

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the v...

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

Tackling colossal waterfalls in Gabon, kayakers Adrian Mattern, Dane Jackson, Bren Orton and Kalob G...

Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police s...

Habibur Rahman’s The River of Partition (Ichamati, 2023) documents this riverine environment, the di...

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

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

A documentary tale about sport and politics under martial law. All of Poland saw the great goals of ...

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

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

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

Loitz is one of those former GDR towns that still suffer from the effects of German reunification. F...

Created by Sampo Vallotton & Laurent De Martin, this unexpected short movie is a visual manifesto of...