Wdr Movies

The film is the documentary reappraisal of the carnival taboo topic par excellence, "Carnival under the swastika". First of all: He existed! See numer...

Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959),a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and portraye...

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist. The film focuses on Kleist himself, torn apart, searching for knowledge, for identity...

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the governm...

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the c...

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuse...

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous...

On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to me...

A Film by Peter Krieg. From a Marilyn Monroe robot to the ethics of artificial intelligence, Machine Dreams explores humanity's love affair with machi...

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

The discovery of a magic mirror allows Fred to realize his dream: his twin tidies up his room, eats without complaining and becomes first in class. Bu...

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.