Wdr Movies

Children from poor families recount experiences from their daily lives.

A pupil at Gabrielle's comprehensive school takes her own life. It soon becomes clear that there is more to her death than just a young woman's lonely...

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second...

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

Documentary about a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot, Franz von Werra, the only German soldier of the Second World War who managed to escape from captiv...

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume design to cameras rolling.

A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his famil...

Dark green, impenetrable forests cover a landscape with secluded valleys and rugged mountain ridges. 2.000 rivers and streams dig deep into the under...

In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch...

The Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, has been almost completely sealed off to the media. Now, for the first time, dozens of its former op...

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were ana...

Mr. Vegas, stage name of Clifford Smith, is a stage animal who has been playing at the world's best reggae festivals since 1998. His fans are everywhe...

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival.

In order to expand coal mining, the traditional town of Most in the Czech Republic was razed to the ground. Old buildings were demolished, a Gothic ch...

Katja moves with her mother from a small village to Essen. At first she has problems settling into the rough city life, but then she meets the “Fun Ga...