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Dramatisierte Geschichte eines Aufstands in der russischen Marine und der daraus hervorgehenden Demonstrationen, die in einem Massaker durch die Polizei enden.

Leni Riefenstahls künstlerisches Vermächtnis und ihre komplexen Beziehungen zum Naziregime, indem sie ihre Selbstdarstellung den Beweisen gegenüberstellt, die auf ein Bewusstsein für die Gräueltaten des Regimes hindeuten.

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs, original screenplays and motion picture.

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Films steht die Weimarer Republik (1918-1933) und deren "kollektiver Filmgeist". Untersucht wird der Zweck des Films als kulturelles Werkzeug. Beruhend auf dem Buch des bekannten Soziologen Siegfried Kracauer "Von Caligari zu Hitler" (1947).

A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.

"Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens" von Friedrich W.Murnau (1922) lebte erfolgreich in den verschiedenen Kunstsparten wie Musikvideos, Filmen, Gemälden und Comics weiter: eine über 100-jährige Präsenz in der Hoch- und Popkultur.

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.

Paul Merton looks at the British films of Alfred Hitchcock, the silent films and the early sound films.

Portrays the nude photographer Gundula Schulze. Individual scenes with Gundula Schulze are accompanied by everyday scenes of working cashiers in a department store. Schulze talks about her job and the difficulties of putting the whole personality of the women in the right light in her photos in order to be a counterpoint to the superficial nude photos that are visible everywhere. The photographer vividly reports on her efforts to take away the fear and shame of the women portrayed through trust. Her character is captured in order to do justice to the position of women in society.

Daily life in a Berlin square from 1932 to 1934, from dawn to dusk, dairy street markets, traffic of pedestrians, cars, and trains, night lights of cars and signboards on buildings, a march of a Nazi detachment with the swastika flag.

A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people are involved, begins in the Schloßstraße in the Berlin district of Steglitz, goes over the Rhine, Main and Dominicusstraße in the direction of Berlin-Schöneberg.

In Helmut Weiss' "black-and-white" film there are the motifs, substitutes and set pieces from which the myth of America can be spelled out, but as film images they pass by like shadows: Indian singing before a moonlit night, sometimes Indians with feather headdresses, a music box from the Far East and little wooden dolls form the minimalist scenario from Chinatown to Vietnam. The sound and image montages in the film are only clear in a few places, but mostly a melancholy ambivalence prevails. Acoustic refraction results in a fanning out of a minimalist visual aesthetic into mini-stories: the visual enlargement of a pictorial motif such as a few fig trees becomes a jungle, the sound montage becomes a slowed-down South State recitative, or Curtiz's Casablanca final dialogue an ironic break with the romantic associated with the men's association. An insect in a water glass, an ant circling nervously on its rim, flies on a tabletop, a hand that suddenly falls over it: in close-ups like this, the film tells what is in the subordinate clauses of detective novels. In close-up, an insect performs a surrealistic dance to the beat of the music, like the overture or epilogue to a killer showdown. The minimalist technique of enlargement thus evokes memory rather than citing what common sense holds for America. A bizarre, "black" film that lies almost vegetatively on the surface of things.

The documentary traces the tragic story of the "Threepenny Opera" from stage to screen and ultimately to the bitter lawsuit between Bertolt Brecht and the film producers.

A walk through Vienna and a meeting accompanied by the Kaiser-Walzer.

Klaus Erhardt lives with his family in a hidden village in the mountains of the Haute Vallée du Jaur. He bought the village more than 15 years ago and rents out the old, partly renovated houses to tourists from all over the world. Klaus and his wife Jean have been running sheep farms for a few years, which has earned them recognition. It's a strange life in this mountain village. The author remembers the times when everything started here and when he lived here and was looking for a free and different life. The film tells of the life of the Erhardts and sets it against the author's memories and thoughts.