Zdf Movies

Spain, 1519. Five ships and 270 men leave the familiar shore behind on an extraordinary quest: to find a western sea passage to the sought-after Spice...

Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter whi...

Rudolf Diesel and the diesel engine: After Diesel's social rise and his first successes, competitors and scientists became hostile to Diesel and his i...

For years, with bureaucratic regularity, the traineeship, the practical part of teacher training, follows the theory-dominated teaching degree program...

Shows the colonization process in the nature reserves of La Serranía de la Macarena and Bajo Caguán in Caquetá. The settlers and a FARC leader describ...

Drought, heat or heavy rain – extreme weather is increasingly leading to crop losses. If the forecasts are to be followed, climate change will threate...

The name of a small town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania stands for the state's biggest breakdown in the fight against the RAF - and at the same time...

A sensational discovery in Great Britain provides new insights into the life and death of the Roman Empire. It is the first intact skeleton of a Roman...

A documentary about everyday life in a Romanian high-security prison near Bucharest. Filmmaker Andrei Schwartz spent more than half a year accompanyin...

Two-part documentary about the roots of the music of hope, the rebels, the lateral thinkers and the oppressed.

A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.

Small investors lose their savings, fund managers lose their reputation, financial regulators lose their credibility—the Wirecard bankruptcy has sent...

In the spring of 2002, six young people drowned in the pond in Tehran Park.