Wdr Movies

For the Turks, the Federal Republic of Germany has become a magnet and a hope of escaping the social problems of their homeland; however, they also fa...

Filmmaker Dietrich Schubert draws on photographer Chargesheimer’s famous photo book *5:30* to create a documentary film portraying the streets and squ...

Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest

The story of the lives of five ordinary black South African women living under the apartheid system, secretly shot with the help of journalist Nomaven...

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a convers...

During Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile, a father strives to free his daughter from the German religious sect, Colonia Dignidad.

Jan is in the last year of his apprenticeship. He wants to be taken on and he wants to do everything right. But what is the right thing to do when res...

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town...

The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibl...

Johanna, a feisty 17-year-old German girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, discovers her biological father is Turkish. Without telling him...

Follow the story of a leopard mother as she raises her cubs near the Luangwa River, facing a constant battle to hunt successfully, defend her territor...

An essay on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau produced on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

The second part of Jens Schanze's cinematic chronicle of the village resettlements in connection with the “Garzweiler II” open-cast lignite mine opera...

The gruesome death of a young woman confronts target investigators Hanna Landauer and Lars Röwer with an unusual challenge in the frozen Swedish north...

During World War II, 8 million people from abroad were forced to work in Germany, making up 30% of the workforce. By 1993, when a film on this topic w...

The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.

A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow),a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group)...