Dieter Stürmer

In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas t ...

A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift (2021)

An intrepid team of 300 scientists spend a year in harsh conditions deep in the Arctic, on a pioneering expedition to secure vital answers to help us deal with climate change. ...

Mystery of the Ice Age Giants (2020)

During the last Ice Age, millions of large animals roamed the Earth, from wooly mammoths and giant sloths to cave lions and saber-toothed cats. But as the temperatures rose, three-quarters of these species died out. What happened? Can environmental changes ...

Arctic Drift (2020)

It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and l ...

Out Of Europe (2020)

Looking at whether the history of early human evolution should be rewritten. For decades, most experts have been convinced that Africa is the cradle of mankind and many fossil finds from Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and Chad seemed to prove it. ...

What Killed the Ice Age Giants? (2019)

Scientists speculate why the end of the last Ice Age caused the extinction of some of Earth's largest animals. ...

Namibia: The Story of a German Colony (2019)

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so-called German South West Africa (1884-1915) is hideous; a hidden and silenced account of looting and geno ...

Wie schaffen wir die Agrarwende? (2019)

Industrial agriculture ensures our food supply and has made vegetables, fruit and meat cheaper. However, its negative consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. For one year, the documentary accompanies farmers who are looking for alternatives to ind ...

Hannibal: A March on Rome (2018)

Even today it is considered one of the greatest military feats ever. In 218 BC, a Carthaginian army of ninety thousand men and three dozen elephants set out to cross the Alps to challenge the might of Rome. The exact route chosen by Hannibal, its charismat ...

Transports du futur : A la conquête de la vitesse (2018)

The Man Who Was Too Free (2017)

A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow in February of 2015. ...

Mali Blues (2016)

Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to M ...

Der Vietnamkrieg - Gesichter einer Tragödie (2015)

The Vietnam War was the longest conflict of the 20th century. It was the first time that the media brought a war into our living rooms. This had consequences: Its images are deeply engraved in our memories: the widespread dropping of napalm bombs, the nake ...

Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. This first glimpse inside his studio in dec ...

Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit (2011)

Around 3,000 BC, the first territorial state in history was created with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. The empire on the Nile was to exist for 3,000 years. The current section focuses on religion, temple economy and the cult of the dead and exa ...

Ägypten: Geburt einer Großmacht (2011)

The Competitors: Russia's Child Prodigies (2010)

At the age of seventeen, Irina Chistyakova looks back at an international concert career spanning ten years. Irina is the youngest of the four protagonists of the film Russia's Wonder Children made in 2000. By now seventeen years old, she is going through ...

24 Hours Berlin (2009)

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities. ...

The Colonial Misunderstanding (2004)

In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European coloniali ...

Contergan: Die Eltern (2003)

From 1959 to 1962, about 5000 disabled children were born in Germany, often with shortened and altered limbs, but also very often with damage to internal organs. About half of the children did not survive. In November 1961, it turned out that the sleeping ...

Tomorrow Yeaaaaah! (2008)

The study stylizes the highly concentrated training of a basketball team and the start of the big game the next day. Bodies, movements and sounds are fragmented in unusual excerpts, alienated by the reduction to black and white and reassembled in an origin ...