Wdr Movies

Red Bull has repeatedly taken extreme sports to the limit with risky and controversial publicity stunts. A number of athletes have suffered fatal acci...

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pa...

Documentary about a German fomer member of the foreign legion and a British mercenary involved in the Balkan conflict.

This short segment by Manfred Blank for the magazine Buchladen focuses on Luis Buñuel.

Hulya is a young Turkish woman torn between two cultures. Forced to live with her uncle in Turkey, she leaves this house: she wants to return to Germa...

Roland Kaiser is considered one of the greats of German pop music. An icon of light music who masters the rules of success like no other. A star you c...

Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a br...

The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recognized Soviet Russia. And so German-Soviet relations...

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume design to cameras rolling.

The ageing actor Peter Poller, whose name still has traction, is engaged as a guest at a provincial theater. They are performing a play by Molière. Po...

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at...

One year after Stine's husband died, she reclusive lives with her daughter Stephanie in a suburban villa which falls into disrepair. She encounters th...

There are two brothers who couldn't be more different. One, Anno Wilhelm, loves life and seeks to savor it in every way; the other, Julian, would like...

A documentary about investigators of the International Criminal Court trying to gather evidence of crimes committed in Africa.

An essay on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau produced on the occasion of his 100th birthday.