Br Movies

"Vivan las mujeres!" The message is unambiguous: Camila Arriva Grupo is all about women. These five Argentinian musicians shake up traditional gender roles with their new approach to tango. The men are out, the women are in. A far cry from the traditional imag...

Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on...

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

In the Mangfallgebirge just outside Munich, a special geological history created the framework for a variety of natural habitats. It has been cultivated by man for at least 3000 years. And yet a treasure trove of nature has been preserved here to this day....

The name Tarta Relena conjures up images of a traditional Catalan pastry. In concert, their sensual, crystal-clear voices oscillate effortlessly between futuristic sounds and traditional Catalan harmonies; a refined experimental music that has the flavour of a...

"I am a stranger here,” “I am a foreigner,” “I don't speak German” are all phrases that can be learned in the Goethe Institute’s elaborately produced 26-part language course short film series, Guten Tag (Good Day). With a great deal of artistic imagination, sc...

Kandinsky, Marc and their companions revolutionized art from Munich, freeing form and color from objects in the landscape of the Alps.

Since it was founded in Barcelona in 2015 by ten female wind musicians, the Balkan Paradise Orchestra has established itself in a field traditionally reserved for men. These ten Spanish artists deliver a refreshing performance combining traditional Balkan fanf...

In a village in southern Germany, efforts have been made for some years to facilitate the survival of the barn owl beneficial to the home and the countryside.

June 29, 2004 - 9:15pm. It's pitch dark when Günter, Jörg, Christian and Markus reach the mythical summit, fulfilling the dream of their lives. However, the fatal spiral that will change the course of the expedition has already begun: Jens, who has given up on...

Former district administrator Georg (89),a Prussian through and through, has been living with Alina, a Polish woman 45 years his junior, since the death of his wife. The housekeeper looks after the sprightly old man and brings a new lease of life to his every...

Two german students follow in the footsteps of the travel guide written by Jack D. Rittenhouse in 1946 and travels the legendary "Route 66", the old east-west connecting road across the USA. What was once considered a dangerous travel route is now a journey in...

On 22 July 2016 a German high-school student David Sonboly killed nine people in a seemingly random attack in a Munich shopping-centre. Why do some young people become mass murderers? A look at radicalisation within extreme-right groups online.

Best of ... Space Night

Neo-soul, Afrobeat, jazz, and hip-hop... Singer Nneka moves seamlessly between all these styles to speak out against abuse and social injustice. Arriving in Germany at the age of 20, the young Nigerian woman first turned to music to overcome homesickness, befo...

Short film about bilingual kids

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

In 1959, Hans Bernhard Reichow published his book "Die autogerechte Stadt - Ein Weg aus dem Verkehrs-Chaos" (The car-friendly city - a way out of traffic chaos),in which he proposed a city oriented towards the needs of motorized private transport. This docume...

Native animal species in and around water As attractive as nature is above water, the animal and plant life below the surface is just as fascinating. To date, natural science has identified around 20,000 species of fish. Around 60 of these species live in our...

The conquest of England by the Normans is retold using the Bayeux Tapestry.