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The Lauenburg Lake District is located between Lübeck and Lauenburg on the River Elbe. With more than 470 square kilometres, it is the third largest natural reserve in Schleswig-Holstein. Due to its extensive forest areas, 40 lakes and its proximity to Mecklenburg’s biosphere reserve Lake Schalsee,

Anacondas have fired people's imagination since time immemorial. Hardly any other animal is so feared and yet at the same time so revered as the biggest snake in the world.

The gallery forests of the Serengeti are the realm of a phantom. The shadowy thickets are the domain of a Leopardess.

A brook in the Serengeti is the home of a leopardess. The secret queen of the shadows took care of her son and has done a good job so far but the adventure continues.

Having previously been dominated by the Empires of Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary, many peoples of Eastern Europe had cherished hopes of gaining freedom after World War I.

At the end of WWI, the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Sèvres stood for a new world order. This is where the victorious powers decided the Ottoman Empire was to be broken up.

North Korea is a country of stark contrasts. On the one hand, it presents real socialist stereotypes like cryptic messages from a frozen time loop, combined with shocking reports on shortages. On the other hand, polished Pyongyang lures with a futuristic skyline, flashy amusement parks and departmen

The symbol of the SS, Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, stands for terror and the murder of millions. The penniless graphic artist Walter Heck was given the job of designing the jagged, rune-like characters in 1929. The “sig” rune was rooted deep in the ideological cosmos of the Nazis and their supporters. Th

In February 1917 World War I is raging when Mata Hari is arrested in Paris and taken to the examining magistrate. Her very life is at stake: she is accused of high treason. The famous exotic dancer has come to represent beauty and the power of feminine seduction. The documentary Mata Hari - the Beau

In Cologne in 1212 a boy named Nicholas captivated thousands of children between the ages of eight and fifteen with his fanatical speeches. They had been chosen, he said, to liberate Jerusalem. Likewise, in the French town of Cloyes a young shepherd gathered numerous children around him with the sam

From Lower Saxony and North Rhine Westphalia, from Osnabrück to Paderborn, one of Germany’s most beautiful forests extends for some 150 kilometers - the Teutoburg Forest. The low mountain range became famous due to the Varus Battle that took place in 9 AD. It was here that Hermann, or Arminius, the

It’s in spring 2008, when the telephone of the Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein suddenly rings. The message archeologist Martin Segschneider receives makes him curious.

In 2016, a historic moment arrived when Barack Obama spoke in Cuba to the inhabitants of the island nation and promised a future together. For the first time in more than 50 years, an American president had entered the communist country and turned towards an erstwhile enemy. However, the US economic

Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairy tales. But where do they actually come from? How much of them is truth, how much is myth? Going to great lengths in this documentary, the filmmakers join scientists to explore a number of the best known sagas and legends in the world.

Scientists are already looking feverishly for evidence of extraterrestrial life. With the ExoMars mission, ESA will soon find life on Mars. If there are only tiny microbes, there could also be life in other places in the universe. But can life in space exist at all? The exobiologist Jean-Pierre de V

Pop culture is unthinkable without them, and so is the Cold War: UFO’s, those flying saucers allegedly bringing aliens to dominate the world.

The documentary THE BALKANS IN FLAMES examines the disintegration of the former Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia.

Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps, one of the greatest military feats ever.

This documentary focuses on a spectacular discovery made in a quarry near the village of Eulau, not far from the central German town of Naumburg. Neolithic graves contained the skeletons of three women, two men and eight children, buried tenderly 4500 years ago, some affectionately entwined. In 2008

For our ancestors, the fear of the undead was very real. If you look beneath the earth you`ll find: bodies that have been weighted down with stones, tied up or even decapitated in their...

In this documentary, we get to the bottom of history’s most popular myths. Archaeologists unearth ancient tombs and embark on underwater expeditions.

The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.

Having previously been dominated by the Empires of Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary, many peoples of Eastern Europe had cherished hopes of gaining freedom after World War I.

At the end of WWI, the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Sèvres stood for a new world order. This is where the victorious powers decided the Ottoman Empire was to be broken up.