Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilizatio...

In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather ...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich...

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

A documentation about the reconstruction and destruction of german cities after the 2nd World War.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Ye...

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly i...

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...