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A global thriller, documenting the fierce competition between scientists, collectors, and museums for dinosaur fossils worth millions, exploring how these ancient relics redefine our understanding of history and our uncertain future.

We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us.

For most people, Italy stands for sun, beach and sea. Only very few people realize where Italy gets its support from.

October 2018 is the four-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The documentary traces the story of how it was finally brought to an end with the peace of Munster and Osnabrück - the first peace in European history to be concluded at the negotiating table and not fought on the battlefield.

After the end of the GDR, thrashings, threats and hunts were part of everyday life. In the years after the reunification of the early 1990s, hatred, racism and violence against foreigners and supporters of leftist ideology broken out in Eastern Germany. Most of those involved was young people with no prospects and an uncertain future. In many cities and towns, the streets and squares belonged to the right-wing scene, organized in neo-Nazi comradeships with occasionally youth clubs as meeting points. Bomber jackets, combat boots and the Hitler salute showed the intimidated rest where they were. The baseball bat was a popular weapon. There were riots, attacks on asylum seekers' homes, mass brawls and hunt downs to those who looked or think differently. It doesn't took long and the first deaths were to be mourned. The majority of the Eastern German population looked the other way or even applauded the deeds. A bad omen for the political development of later years and the popularity of the AfD in this part of Germany today. In six film segments, a team of authors take a look at the time reflected in interviews with contemporary witnesses.

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired.

They have connected countries, been points of attack in times of war, and are key in conducting trade. Bridges are cultural monuments. Their construction has changed over history, and they impact the lives of everybody that uses them.

The documentary series "The World of Bridges" portrays bridges from all over the world and shows their history as well as the stories taking place on and around them. It combines captivating images from various countries and continents with fascinating stories.

Marlon Brando dreamed of turning the Tetiaroa atoll in French Polynesia into a natural sanctuary open to scientists. This ecological project has been ongoing since the actor's death in 2004.

What if the greatest high-performance athletes - present and past - could compete against each other on a level playing field?

A gripping documentary about the inventors of the world's first clinically-approved Covid-19 Vaccine and how their unknown startup, BioNTech, surprised everyone with its breakthrough in mRNA technology and answer to the global pandemic.

A documentary film about war in the digital age.

Refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea give us an insight into their hazardous journeys to Europe through the lenses of their mobile phones.

Do you ever wonder how the fruits we consume make their way from the farm to our table, who harvests the oil we put in our salad, or the oranges we derive our juice from each morning? In an era during which words such as "organic" and ideas such as "farm to table" are promoted as the cornerstone for healthy living in the west, nearly nobody chooses to question who the people working the earth are today. The Pickers provides the answers while primarily posing some difficult questions in regards to the reality irregular migrants have to face while, at least in the countries of the European south, they are the ones bringing agricultural products into our homes. A must-see documentary, especially for a country like Greece - and each of the neighboring countries - where there are countless cuisines with fruits and vegetables as necessary ingredients, but only a handful of people willing or able to round them up, creating a scale of inequity, that is nearly impossible to balance.