Cryptocurrencies have a polarising effect – they are considered either a dangerous bubble or the future of money. But what are the risks and benefits? This documentary shows the current shift that is taking place in the global financial architecture and introduces the profiteers and victims, supporters and critics of digital currencies.
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Breathtaking canyons, lakes, rivers and landforms with captivating fauna and flora: from the Tatra Mountains via the Dordogne to the Danube Delta, this series explores extraordinary, still unspoilt corners of Europe. Because of their biodiversity, many are already protected as national parks, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites or biosphere reserves.
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When Sweden joins NATO, the Baltic Sea will be almost entirely under the alliance’s control. Because Russia sees this as a threat, the Baltic Sea has become the focus of geopolitical interests again, and tensions between Western and Russian military forces are rising. We examine this warfront at sea. What are the key players doing and why?
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Civil society and the law system in Russia are under severe pressure from the state. Human rights lawyers have become the last frontier between state violence and society. Mikhail Benyash and a network of like-minded lawyers defend those who dare to speak up. They fight for justice in an increasingly suffocating dictatorship.
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Immanuel Kant was already an important philosopher during his lifetime. Three hundred years after his birth, the film shows for the first time Kant’s close connection to his native Königs-berg, a place he never left. Everything he knew came from books or everyday observations. Using sophisticated animation techniques, the film takes us back to 18th-century Königsberg between Europe and the Russian Empire.
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Irvin Yalom is a well-known psychiatrist and celebrated author. He has produced numerous bestselling novels. How did Yalom become the man he is today? The film follows him in his everyday life and creative process, and offers the audience emotional moments but also fascinating insights into the life of the 91-year-old writer.
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Six-year-old Nila is the product of a temporary marriage, which allows a man in Iran to be married to a woman for a pre-determined time. Children born out of these relationships do not legally exist and cannot attend school. In a system that prioritises men’s rights over women’s, Nila’s mother Leyla fights relentlessly to win custody of her daughter and secure her future.
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The film tells of the discovery of the world’s oldest medical manual. Georg Ebers, a German Egyptologist, came upon the 3,500-year-old work in Luxor in the late nineteenth century and carried it back with him to Saxony in a spectacular manner.
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A few years ago, everyone was talking about declining bee populations, but today beekeeping is booming. There are now so many farmed bees in Swiss cities that they are taking away food from rare wild bees and other insects. This is a problem for biodiversity. Conservationists are now campaigning for the regulation of beekeeping.
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Once at the mercy of Russian interests, Ukraine has become a confident nation that is seeking independence from its historical Soviet ties. Leading experts from the global political stage look at how the 2013 protests on Kyiv’s Maidan Square marked the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Unexploded ordnance, landmines and booby traps have posed a major threat to the civilian population in many regions of Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion of the country. Young women deminers clear important infrastructure points of explosives, putting their own lives at risk in the process. This film is about their everyday lives.
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Michelle and Barack Obama are the first Black presidential couple to be represented at the National Gallery, and for the first time ever, Black artists were commissioned to do the portraits. The Obamas have paved the way for a new generation of artists. How do these artists understand their work and how do they regard their success?
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Petra Kelly was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. She fought for a world without weapons and nuclear energy, for a society at one with nature. She was co-founder of Germany’s Green Party – the first green party to find success. In 1992, She was murdered aged just 44. The issues she addressed are today more topical than ever before.
On the vast plains of Kyrgyzstan, men have been practising the team sport of buzkashi, for centuries. The aim of the game is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders while staying on horseback. Into this tough masculine world enters Atirkül, a woman with an enterprising spirit. Her ambition is to find local men to form her own team.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, driven to new extremes by the COVID crisis. This film documents the visual roots of this new anti-Semitism, taking a historical look at the visual propaganda of the Nazis.
A few years ago, everyone was talking about declining bee populations, but today beekeeping is booming. There are now so many farmed bees in Swiss cities that they are taking away food from rare wild bees and other insects. This is a problem for biodiversity. Conservationists are now campaigning for the regulation of beekeeping.
The film tells of the discovery of the world’s oldest medical manual. Georg Ebers, a German Egyptologist, came upon the 3,500-year-old work in Luxor in the late nineteenth century and carried it back with him to Saxony in a spectacular manner.
Six-year-old Nila is the product of a temporary marriage, which allows a man in Iran to be married to a woman for a pre-determined time. Children born out of these relationships do not legally exist and cannot attend school. In a system that prioritises men’s rights over women’s, Nila’s mother Leyla fights relentlessly to win custody of her daughter and secure her future.
Cryptocurrencies have a polarising effect – they are considered either a dangerous bubble or the future of money. But what are the risks and benefits? This documentary shows the current shift that is taking place in the global financial architecture and introduces the profiteers and victims, supporters and critics of digital currencies.
Marine biologist Hans Hass was one of the inventors of underwater photography in the 1940s. His spectacular photos introduced the underwater world to a wide audience for the first time. How did this young Austrian start a groundbreaking career as a diver, film-maker and zoologist – despite all the adversities of the World War II?
Michelle and Barack Obama are the first Black presidential couple to be represented at the National Gallery, and for the first time ever, Black artists were commissioned to do the portraits. The Obamas have paved the way for a new generation of artists. How do these artists understand their work and how do they regard their success?
Unexploded ordnance, landmines and booby traps have posed a major threat to the civilian population in many regions of Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion of the country. Young women deminers clear important infrastructure points of explosives, putting their own lives at risk in the process. This film is about their everyday lives.
Breathtaking canyons, lakes, rivers and landforms with captivating fauna and flora: from the Tatra Mountains via the Dordogne to the Danube Delta, this series explores extraordinary, still unspoilt corners of Europe. Because of their biodiversity, many are already protected as national parks, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites or biosphere reserves.
When Sweden joins NATO, the Baltic Sea will be almost entirely under the alliance’s control. Because Russia sees this as a threat, the Baltic Sea has become the focus of geopolitical interests again, and tensions between Western and Russian military forces are rising. We examine this warfront at sea. What are the key players doing and why?
