Sechs Millionen Juden starben während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, sowohl in den Vernichtungslagern als auch durch die mobilen Kommandos der...

Leben und Werk der deutschen politischen Philosophin jüdischer Abstammung Hannah Arendt (1906-75), die für Aufsehen sorgte, als sie 1963 in...

Vor 400 Jahren kam in Moskau ein Mann aus dem Geschlecht der Romanows auf den russischen Thron: Michail Romanow. Seitdem beeinflussen Machtinstinkt...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential...

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums...

Der Prager Fenstersturz, der am 23. Mai 1618 stattfand, war der entscheidende historische Moment, der den Dreißigjährigen Krieg...

Im Sommer 1980 rufen die Arbeiter der Danziger Leninwerft einen Streik gegen die staatliche Unterdrückung aus. Die zum damaligen Zeitpunkt...

Der flämische Maler, Humanist und Diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) hatte das Glück, schon zu Lebzeiten als genialer Künstler und...

Das unglaubliche Leben von Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): Sohn eines republikanischen Intellektuellen; Exil in den frühen Tagen des...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. Spending their...

Im April 1966 sitzt Altbundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer dem Maler Oskar Kokoschka Modell. Der Künstler nutzt diese Zeit hinter verschlossenen...

A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as...

Knapp ein Jahr vor dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs brach eine zweite, genauso tödliche Katastrophe über die Menschheit herein: die Spanische...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Der Nordseeraum bietet Landschaften von großer Schönheit, über und unter Wasser. Die Dokumentation zeigt Impressionen dieser See aus...

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make...

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the...

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where...

A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is...

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry,...

The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is...

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who...

The history of mankind from prehistoric times to the 20th century.

From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second...

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising...

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral...