September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply shocked by the news that an anarchist has assassinated Empress Elisabeth in Geneva. He then shuts himself up in his private rooms and recalls the empress’ fateful life. We learn the truth about Elisabeth, as the doctor knew more about her than anyone else.

Ignaz Wuzel and Gerhard Jeschko are regulars at the espresso in the Südtiroler Platz underground sta...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria ...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
This film journeys deep into the heart of Austria’s favorite daily newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, th...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

Revealed in independant movies such as My Own Private Idaho, blockbuster movie star in Point Break a...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

The remarkable coming-of-age story of Stephen Curry—one of the most influential, dynamic, and unexpe...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

The rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker, an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, B...

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Opera...

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...