Jane's Journey
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary.
In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across s...
Contributor(s): CC Medienproduktion GmbH & Co.KG
Lumumba : la mort du prophete = Lumumba : death of a prophet
This film recounts Lumumba's 200 day rule culminating with his assassination. It reveals how a weakened democratic movement succumbed to the only well-financed and organized force in the country - the military. It reexamines the independence strugg...
Contributor(s): Velvet Film GmbH
Christian vs. Christian
Outlining the provincial causes and ravaging effects of Europe's Thirty Years' War, this program illustrates the ability of religious fervor to inflame nationalism and drive the quest for power. With background on Martin Luther's split with the Cath...
Contributor(s): Medien Produktions GmbH
In the name of Allah
Military conflict accompanied the spread of Islam during the Middle Ages. This program reveals the ironies of that union between war and faith: how Islam was adopted rather than marginalized by invading Mongols; how the rise of strict Islamic orthod...
Contributor(s): Medien Produktions GmbH
In the name of Christ
This program examines the forces behind European determination to capture Palestine, linking the belligerence of medieval Crusaders with their piousness. Drs. Klaus Herbers of Friedrich Alexander University and Patrick Franke of Martin Luther Univer...
Contributor(s): Medien Produktions GmbH
Cappuccino trail: the global economy in a cup
A 150-pound bag of coffee beans might earn a farmer $50; the "street value" of that same bag-10,000 cups of coffee-is around $20,000. By following the trail of two coffee beans grown in the Peruvian Andes, this program takes a unique look at the ubi...
Contributor(s): FFP Entertainment, GmbH
Food design
Produkton, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH ; a film by Martin Hablesreiter, Sonja Stummerer.
Contributor(s): Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer
Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial regimes. These fearless women represent a new, networked generation of modern rebels. In C...
Contributor(s): Kollektiv fu�r audiovisuelle Werke GmbH
War Zone
What's it like to walk down the street and be heckled, harassed, followed, and touched by men? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West armed herself with a video camera to show us, confronting the men who abuse her in this fascinating and critically-acclaim...
Contributor(s): Hank Levine GmbH
The Al Qaeda code: Internet video and the radicalization of Muslim youth
The Internet is the new training ground for terrorist organizations - a readily accessible, globally distributed broadcasting platform for recruitment, indoctrination, and instructional videos. With unprecedented access to al Qaeda and radical jihad...
Contributor(s): EXPOMA GmbH