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A platoon of soldiers are stranded in an abandoned military base on a near future Earth waiting for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical-education teacher at a local school. But the past catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

There's not really a plot, since this is a Documentary. In my opinion, it's a very good, very entertaining, documentary of the second half of the 2004 JJ Cale Band tour. I'm Rocky, the piano player in the band. It's really accurate, factual and honest. Cale has somehow got a reputation as a recluse, which is undeserved. The fact is: he has always avoided fame, since he thinks, correctly, that fame gets in the way of freedom and friendship. For this film, he set that aside and stepped out for his fans and friends. The John Cale I have known since 1957 is the John Cale you will see in this film. Many of the mysteries people have been curious about are made plain, even the true story of where the nickname "JJ" came from (the story in the various "Histories of Rock" is inaccurate). There's plenty of really good concert footage and some charming episodes of just John, doodling on guitar and singing his songs, in parking lots and back rooms. You will get to know the supporting cast, from band members to sound guys and roadies, members of the management team and friends sitting in. This DVD is an absolute must for anybody who was ever curious about the man behind the music they love. I think the fact that the film crew came over from Munich added much to the effectiveness of the film, since they were obviously charmed by Americans and the American countryside. There's also footage from the 2004 Crossroads Festival, from the first half of the tour, and interviews with Eric Clapton, who sat in with us on the Saturday.

Multi-character study of various people, a prostitute, a waitress, a lawyer, a gay actor, whose lives criss-cross each during three days in their lives in Los Angeles.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of events which have their roots over four decades ago. In order to find herself and understand the game she was part of, Ieva sets out on a journey to the past, confronting family secrets, lies and betrayal.

In the early 1950s the Alpine village of Marmorera and the surrounding valley was flooded because of a local dam project. Even today the sunken village hasn't been lain to rest. Then an unknown, confused young woman is rescued from Lake Marmorera, and soon becomes a puzzling figure of much concern for Zurich's psychiatrists. One of them, Simon Cavegn, himself originally from Marmorera, treats the young woman and slowly starts to discover the dark secret of Marmorera.

Two children from Austria arrive in a fish village of China and with the help of a doll save a shadow play from the hands of a loan shark.

Before Columbine or Virginia Tech, there was Simon´s Rock. Georg Stefan Troller interviews the first school shooter of the 1990´s and paints a clearer picture of an unspeakable tragedy. Troller looks at the incident from all sides as he talks to the killer Wayne Lo´s parents, his lawer, his former teachers. Troller then speaks to Greg Gibson - the father of a victim. Gibson has written a book about the shootings and this documentary was a direct result of the book.

Peter Keller, who lives in Berlin, receives a letter from his homeland, the Swiss Emmental. Otto Balsiger, who had served in the army as a soldier under Keller's command, is accused of raping and murdering a woman and asks Keller for help. Keller, who firmly believes in Balsiger's innocence, tries to find out the true background to the crime on his own. However, his investigations quickly make him unpopular with the villagers, and it seems he can't trust anyone. Only Josef, an old friend of Keller's who has since become the leader of a religious sect, and Uta, the mayor's daughter, seem to be honest and friendly to him.

About the identical twins Jutta Winkelmann and Gisela Getty, who belonged to the "harem" of the Commune 1 founder Rainer Langhans.

A portrait of the legendary, recently passed away blues artist John Lee Hooker. His life, his closest friends and music colleagues, from his birthplace in Mississippi following the ups and downs of his career to the big successes.

A journey into the incredible life of Klaus Voormann. An inside view into the history of Rock'n'Roll. A story of friendship, art and music. Klaus Voormann was on the frontlines of the pop era's meteoric rise.

In 1971 she was 'wanted' for political murder, because she had assassinated a Bolivian Colonel, who represented the oppressive military dictatorship in the South American country. In 1973 she was ambushed and shot by the police forces led by the notorious Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France - see also Hôtel Terminus (1988). Monika had tried to abduct him to bring him to France and have him accused for his crimes. Who was Monika Ertl, who is said to have met Ernesto Che Guevara? The documentary follows her traces, interviewing her family as well as her former fellow combatants.

A look back at the fantastic life of Erich von Däniken. A camera team followed the Swiss author around the world to the archaeological hotspots of the world. Were the gods really astronauts? When Däniken asked this question in 1968, "Dänikitis" broke out worldwide. His first book "Memories of the Future" made him the most successful German-language non-fiction author of the present.

The members of the 20 July plot are being worshiped as heroes today who sacrificed their lives for the German resistance against Hitler. The violent death of their fathers was a disaster for their children - a disaster whose consequences they still have to cope with up to this day. In his film "A traitor's child" Christian Weisenborn is showing shocking encounters with the children of the members of the 20 July plot. Axel Smend can still feel the pain when remembering the day his mother came home from a parent-teacher conference with a tear-stained face. His teacher had told the mother about Axel's bad grades in Latin and had added that he couldn't expect anything else from a traitor's son. The father, Günther Smend, had been executed in 1944. But Christian Weisenborn is also looking at his own family history. His parents were part of a huge circle of antifascist friends the Gestapo called the "Red Orchestra". They were artists, blue-collar workers, Communists, aristocrats, doctors and officers. Men and women. As early as 1942, they distributed pamphlets talking about the genocide of European Jews and tried to reach out to the Soviets and the Americans. Weisenborn's parents survived, but 52 of their friends were executed in the prison of Berlin-Plötzensee in 1942/1943. Weisenborn also conducted interviews with their daughters and sons.

Without money, job or perspective, the musician Diego returns to his Sicilian homeland of Augusta after 20 years. When he has a dream of a visionary picture of a jaw harp, he buys the instrument spontaneously in a tourist shop and take it on a journey to find happiness. On his journey he meets the master of "Karate Kid" and hears from the jaw harp, which flies to space one night to be played by a Russian cosmonaut.

How a great love became a masterpiece of European literature: the fascinating story of how the novel "The Leopard" came to be written. When Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957, he was penniless. One year later, his only novel The Leopard was published and became an overnight success. Luchino Visconti's eponymous film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1963. The story of how the book came to be written is largely unknown. It's based on the relationship between the writer and his Baltic German wife and how they lost almost everything against the background of the massive upheavals in Europe and who nonetheless managed to reinvent themselves.

A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be broadcast directly to United States.

The documentary film Wagner, Bayreuth and the rest of the world illuminates Richard Wagner's ongoing popularity and cultic admiration. In the case of the controversial German composer, there seems to be only admirers and opponents. Axel Brüggemann investigates why Wagner polarizes music lovers so much and how the enthusiasm for his creations still persists - at the festival in Bayreuth, but also beyond the German borders.

From Gangnam Style to BTS - the Korean music industry is a global phenomenon. Teens with the perfect look are launched all the time, on social media and in choreographed music videos with easy-listening hits.