The War Within

Length: 52' or 72'

American daily life in Landstuhl, Germany: Wounded U.S. soldiers receive medical treatment at the military hospital of the U.S. Base.

Death of a Soldier

Length: 27'

They are the faces of George W. Bush’s surge, his final push to accomplish a never ending mission. Thousands of men and women were called back to duty, reservists deployed to Iraq to fill the thinning ranks.

Soil on Sale

Length: 27'

The struggle for food is on: according to UN projections, world population will exceed nine billion by the year 2050.....

The End of a Supertrain

Ten Years after the Eschede Disaster

Length: 52'

At 10.59 in the morning, the Intercity Express ICE 884 'Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen' headed from Munich to Hamburg was derailed just outside the station of Eschede. A failed tyre fitted to one of the wheels caused the worst train catastrophe in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, taking 101 lives and injuring 105 people, some seriously.

A World in Despair

How Subsidies create Poverty

Length: 52'

The vicious circle has its origins in European subsidization practices: Encouraged by generous EU funding, European farmers produce around ten percent more milk than domestic consumers can drink. The bulk of this excess supply is converted into milk powder and exported to developing countries. The EU also offers plenty of subsidies for converting fresh milk into powder and for exporting it.

Second Hand

The Global Business

Length: 52'

The donations of clothes are becoming a global economic asset. Whoever places old clothing in a collection bin as a donation today generally has no idea that this is the first step of a trade in used merchandise that spans the globe. In the process, the bundle of worn pieces of clothing increases in value each time from trader to trader and from station to station. It is transformed from an old item no longer immediately needed into what it used to be, namely a fashionable article of clothing.

Backyard Wrestling

Bloody Fights in U.S. Backyards

Length: 52'

Their weapons are neon tubes, tin signs, carpet knives, baseball bats with barbed wire wrapped around them, razor blades, industrial tackers or simple drawing pins. The fights take place in back yards, in public parks, in people’s own gardens or in quiet and unknown locations. Spectators are the fighters’ own parents, entire neighborhoods, friends or a paying public.

Bhutan

Land of the Thunder Dragon

Length: 50'

Known to the natives as Druk Yul, Bhutan with its isolation, spectacular mountains, varied flora and fauna, ancient Buddhist monasteries, vibrant culture and mystic aura is regarded by many as one of the last hidden paradises on earth. As one of the first film teams, which was allowed to film the people of Bhutan and through the eyes of the residents this beautiful landscape, the fascinating traditions in the middle of this hidden kingdom are portrayed. .

Buried Alive

The Sinking of the Kursk

Length: 50'

None of us can get to the surface. I am writing blindly", says the desperate message in the farewell note Dmitry Kolesnikov writes to his wife. The 27-year-old Russian Lieutenant-Captain is trapped in the Kursk, the sunken Russian nuclear submarine that lies at the bottom of the Barents Sea.

Mercenaries without Borders

Length: 50'

Joining the French Foreign Legion is free. Except for murderers and rapists, everybody is welcome there. There are well over eight thousand foreign legionnaires in total, including a growing number of East Europeans.

Osama bin Laden

The Prophet of Terror

Length: 54'

”We got him” - these were the words used by the US Presidential Envoy to Iraq to announce the capture of Saddam Hussein. A liberating pronouncement which the world continues to wait for in vain in connection with Osama bin Laden. It is as though the earth had swallowed up the prophet of terror.

Sold Out

From Street to Stadium

Length: 50'

A documentary on Foul play behind the world's most popular sport.For millions of kids, soccer is not a mere pastime. Especially in Africa, the game offers the only way out of misery, the sole hope for survival and the prospect of stardom.

The Next War

Radical Zionists in the Holy Land

Length: 54'

They are armed. They are dangerous. And they are fanatical.