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- Documentary about the sinking of Nazi Battleship Bismarck. Contains video material from the wreckage, computer animations and old looking video material.
- Chronicling the life of charismatic Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
- Roald Amundsen was the world's greatest polar explorer. The Norwegian was the first to cross the Northwest Passage and won the spectacular race to the South Pole against his rival Robert F. Scott. But in the end, a revolutionary method of transport became his nemesis - the airplane. On June 17th, 1928, the Norwegian boarded "Latham 47", a sea-plane bound for Spitsbergen. Oddly, Roald Amundsen wanted to save his fiercest rival: Umberto Nobile. The Italian general and aviator had just crashed his airship "Italia" on a return voyage from the North Pole. It would be the final mission of Amundsen's epic and controversial life. 80 years later, a navy expedition sets out into the Barents Sea to find out what happened to him...
- During World War II, Allied operatives went on secret missions to kill Adolph Hitler and his top officers, including Erwin Rommel. This film captures the real-time drama felt as the Special Forces ordered these dangerous and complicated missions to exotic locations.
- Enemy Engagement tells a story from the GDR from three different angles: The dissident writer and his friend who secretly reported to the Stasi, the GDR secret police and was responsible for his imprisonment. 16.000 pages of Stasi files make the third perspective and reveal their own unique light on the story.
- The documentary follows the Englishman Mark Atkin in search of both his Jewish past and the family treasure which his father had told him about and has been an object of familial fascination for decades. At the old family house, however, Mark finds the way to the long sought-after treasure blocked. The family residence is now under the control of the Polish military, and Polish military intelligence are operating a laboratory on the site where the treasure is hidden. The hurdles Mark and his now arriving family have to face seem insuperable, but he never gives up, sometimes blurring the line between legal and illegal, all the hopes of finally unearthing the family treasure.
- At the end of the Cold War the Russian Navy, bereft of funds, abruptly decommissioned 100 nuclear powered submarines leaving behind a massive nuclear waste disposal problem. This program reviews the progress of the long term project to properly dispose of the submarine's reactor cores and the major challenges those working on the project are dealing with.
- 30 years ago, the East German GDR dictatorship. Harmut Rosinger, codename "Hans Kramer", an unofficial collaborator of the Stasi. His task: to secretly report on friend Peter Wulkau, suspected of writing a novel criticizing the GDR. As a result Peter Wulkau is imprisoned for crimes against the state. Today it is Harmut Rosinger who feels guilty. He wants to face up to his past, meet Peter Wulkau and together uncover the secret reports that put his friend behind bars, so revealing his betrayal and guilt. Can Rosinger gets the forgiveness he seeks from his former friend ?
- Lang Lang, the world-renowned pianist, gives an exceptional solo recital. The programme includes the first movement of the Appassionata Sonata by Beethoven, the last movement of Prokofiev's Sonata for piano No. 7, Isaac Albéniz's "Evocation" from the first Iberia Book and Chopin's Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major Op. 53, "Heroic".
- This documentary investigates the background of a secret 1960s USAF space project named MOL (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) and its Russian counterpart ALMAZ.
- 1982– 52mTV EpisodeMicronesians from Bikini, a small atoll of the South Sea state Marshall islands, and it tiny direct neighbor, live in continental US exile. The reason is their evacuation for Operation Crossroads, a massively documented 1946 US military nuclear experiment on their utterly destroyed and uninhabitable island, months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 2009, scientists thoroughly investigate the ecologically grim long-term effects on atoll, ocean and a deliberately but badly sunk fleet. The unprotected military participants are dying ever since. The atolls still aren't being cleaned up and likely to be flooded by global warming anyway.
- 1982– 45mTV Episode