Swr Movies

Ukraine during the German occupation in 1943. 12-year-old orphan Mitka earns a living in a tavern under a false name by playing music every night for...

What actually happens to our plastic waste after we throw it in the recycling garbage can? Plastic pollution is becoming an ever greater problem world...

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than two hundred years ago, on April 10th 1815, Mount Ta...

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosoph...

A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking for his family in the mountains of Potosí. Out of...

About a man who suffers hell on earth after accidentally hitting his girlfriend. Richard, actor in a daily soap opera, wants to brighten up his crisis...

Kilian, 24, went to study in Berlin. Back in Vaihingen, his hometown, for a weekend, he bumps into his two high school friends, Lorenz and Sommer. A r...

It's midsummer in the year 2000 and when a strange girl turns up at the skate park and impresses the teenagers with her skating skills, Lily has to pr...

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rura...

A look at the work of Israel's controversial former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.