Wdr Movies

The order comes in the summer of 1941 from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Produci...

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival.

Mr. Vegas, stage name of Clifford Smith, is a stage animal who has been playing at the world's best reggae festivals since 1998. His fans are everywhe...

This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors, which she received as a gift from her grandfather...

A diary of a lonely 30 year old man who works as a butcher in a supermarket. The movie shows his daily life between the supermarket and his flat. His...

About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Tw...

A silent film character is stuck in a German theater and wants to return to his film.

An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral exp...

Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments?

On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past...

Frank Lehmann, 20, still lives with his parents in the dreary high-rise housing project "Neue Vahr" in Bremen. It's the year 1980 and Frank gets draft...

The severe earthquake in February 2023 has also brought northern Syria back into the international spotlight, a region that has long gone largely unno...

Can a person be recreated alone based on their search history? Five years of a woman's life have been excavated to create a composite portrait, subseq...

When, in 2014, the charismatic German-Bulgarian Ruja Ignatova introduced OneCoin, a new cryptocurrency, she claimed that it was destined to become the...

Filmed by WDR, featuring excerpts of a concert, some backstage shots, autograph signing, various bits of banter, a train trip to Devon, and a visit to...