Wdr Movies

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as...

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are th...

About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Tw...

Live recordings by Kowalski - Der Arbeiter, Ultradeterminanten, Stahlmaschinen and Eine Peinsame Zeit. The band Kowalski, produced an unusual, industr...

Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After di...

May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order. But on this day, 46 people die in a train crash...

Symphonic Odysseys: Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu was a symphonic tribute concert held in Cologne, Germany on July 9, 2011 at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall...

Filmed in Cologne, Germany, for 1999's Bizarre Festival, Joe and the band play new material as well as Clash classics for an adoring audience.

A Soviet sailor travels to the West for the first time. In Hamburg, he hopes to find his missing brother. But German secret service agents, inquisitiv...

Micha is 16, a difficult age. Like every year, he spends the summer holidays with his mother and brothers in a country house in Sweden. When the mothe...

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of the...

A Thai conservationist takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.

As one of Germany’s beauties, the river was the gem of German landscape. But with industrialization it became the country’s hardest working river and...

The film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than i...

Guitarist, singer and harmonica player Roky Erickson was one of the pioneers of Psychedelic Rock with his band 13th Floor Elevators in the 1960s. Afte...

Germany's economic movers and shakers get a thorough going-over in Friedl's docu-fiction hybrid, which doesn't hesitate to point fingers at those part...

An intimate portrait of the director's sister: German model and former Playboy Playmate Hilde Kulbach.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger's film about Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936).