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- This documentary follows the greatest German rock band through a final world tour to explore the question: can rock stars age in dignity? "Forever and a Day" tells the story of a band that simply cannot stop living their dream.
- Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran singles out Israel and the United States for popular hatred as symbols of imperialist control over the country and breaks with the West.
- Exciting stories on a wide variety of topics from around the globe: DW brings viewers background reports from the worlds of politics, business, science, culture, nature, history, lifestyle and sport.
- DW News is a global English-language news and information channel from German public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), established in 2015.
- Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.
- The Russian war of aggression in the Ukraine is not only waged with bombs, rockets and rocket-propelled grenades, but also in the media. It is a "propaganda battle" internally and externally. Russia spreads targeted disinformation in order to systematically devalue news. At the same time, their own population should be convinced that they want to liberate the Ukraine from Nazis. The Ukraine's narrative wants to emotionally mobilize its own population and strengthen resistance to the aggressor. Spindoctors are of particular importance in the propaganda battle over the Ukraine. On the Ukrainian side, it's often influencers like Oleksiy Arestovych. On the Russian side, Vladimir Solovyov, Putin's snout, is supposed to sell the war to his own people with his daily TV talks. The documentary shows the new front lines of virtual warfare and provides insights into the populists' bag of tricks on social networks.
- How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany's best-known art-school, shaped the world we live in today?
- Australia, California, Siberia, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Amazonia...: for more than a decade, the litany of "megafires" has been in the news, so frequently now that one catastrophe chases the previous one in people's minds. Many have forgotten that in 2016, in the oil-rich city of Fort McMurray (Canada), uncontrollable forest fires reached the city, causing the evacuation of almost all of the 100,000 inhabitants and the destruction of thousands of homes. Each year, these fires destroy more than 350 million hectares of forest, six times the size of France, and are increasingly spreading to inhabited areas. In this global investigation, Cosima Dannoritzer meets firefighters, scientists and fire experts from Europe to Indonesia, including the United States and Canada.
- Every summer DJs like Felix Jaehn and Alle Farben clock up more air miles than some airline pilots, conquering the international charts from their laptops. They produce hit songs, and have made German-style Deep House popular in Australia, Japan and the US. Accompany Alle Farben, Felix Jaehn and Trance pioneer Paul van Dyk around the world.
- In the radioactive reserve, Garik the wolf, Seva the hare, Veronica the crow and Phil the owl analyze the latest television news, trying to answer the main question: who is crazier - the leaders of states or peoples under their control?
- Daily lifestyle magazine show that airs on international German TV channel DW (Deutsche Welle). It covers popular culture from across Europe.
- The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust?
- Manhattan may be one of the world's liveliest and richest places, but it is a slender island just 21 kilometers long and very crowded. Its buildings have been getting taller and taller. Many buildings from previous centuries need to be upgraded or replaced. The infrastructure is also severely strained. So large-scale eco-friendly redevelopment is on the cards, and the creation of neighborhoods that are pleasant places to live and work. Another urgent issue is flood prevention as sea levels rise. New York will need to stand its ground as cities compete for the best and the brightest.
- Ordinary Gods is a feature-length documentary exploring the lives and sacrifices of the world's most promising professional soccer players.
- As long as the world craves for fuller, richer, and more intense flavours, the food industry will always look for a solution in the cheap synthetic substitutes. What are the complications to our health?
- 24 hours that changed the world: On November 9, 1989, Günter Schabowski, member and spokesman of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, read out the GDR's new travel regulations at a press conference broadcast live on GDR television. It had been drawn up by high-ranking officers from the Ministry of the Interior and the State Security. Contrary to the guidelines of the political leadership, the authors had written the possibility of an unbureaucratic departure and re-entry into the paper. Nevertheless, the travel regulation passed the Central Committee without objection.
- "DW To the Point" - Strong opinions, clear points of view, international agendas.
- In the autumn of 1944, US forces advanced into the Hurtgen Forest, which was the last obstacle to crossing the Rhine River and into the heart of Germany. It turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles of the war, lasting until the winter of 1945. It was estimated that more than 30,000 US and German soldiers were killed, and tens of thousands more wounded, before the battle was over. The fighting was so fierce and bloody that the area became known to those who fought in it as "The Death Factory".
- Hardly anyone else has had such a strong influence on modernity as John Calvin, one of the great European reformers of the 16th century. Some paint him as a spoilsport, others make him the inventor of a self-tormenting Christianity.
- Women around the world use social media platforms as a weapon in their struggle for equal rights. Their online campaigns against femicide in Latin America, FGM in Africa or compulsory headscarves in Iran, mobilize thousands others.
- David Hasselhoff examines the story of the Berlin Wall and interviews the daring and ingenious people who risked life and limb in their quest for freedom.
- News anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color and Afro hair. What is it like to be Black in Germany? The Journalists talks to people of color and their experiences in Germany.
- Where are you from? Afro-German journalist Jana Pareigis has heard that question since her early childhood. In fact, black people have been living in Germany for 400 years. Pareigis travels through the country to speak with other black Germans.
- Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis starts a classical music revolution together with his orchestra MusicAeterna. Not in Berlin, Vienna or Paris - but in the Russian town of Perm, an industrial city 1100 km northeast of Moscow.
- Friendship across the Gaza-Sderot war zone.
- Most people want to live to an old age. But few want to be old. Because age means decay, limitations, disease. But does it have to be this way? Or can we grow very old and still retain good health? "The first person who'll turn 150 years old has probably already been born," say some scientists - and they should know. Because they're tackling the root cause of the problem: not age-related illness, but the aging process itself. But what's the secret of long life without aging biologically to the same extent? In telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, which are longer in Costa Rica centenarians than in other people? Is it enough to zap what are known as "zombie" cells, present in all of us? At least scientists are now able to measure our biological age regardless of our actual age in years. An invention by one of the gurus of longevity research Steve Horvath has made that possible.
- The documentary accompanied the work of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
- The Mexican Maestro Alondra de la Parra has taken the world's concert halls by storm. Born in 1980 in New York, she decided early on she wanted to become a conductor.
- Series based on the stories and experiences of African women from the diaspora, who returned to the continent.
- German coach Adrian Haasner travels to Israel to teach Jewish and Palestinian boys how to play soccer. The story reaches its climax at a big tournament in an Arab city with over a thousand participating children. Soon, it becomes clear that this playful engagement has the potential to resolve fundamental problems.