Documentaries

Vienna's baking grandmothers and their recipe against poverty in old age - ARTE Re:

At Café Vollpension in Vienna, women and men who would normally be retired bake. They supplement their meager pensions and stay in touch with young people – that’s the concept behind Café Vollpension. The young organizers now want to spread this idea and are embarking on a tour to Bad Ischl – a big risk.

37 Grad: Die großen Fragen des Lebens

For its 30th anniversary, „37°“ portrays three people from three generations and asks them the big questions of life.

 

Michigan: Roadmovie im Swing State ARD Weltspiegel

The US state of Michigan plyas a pivitol role in the presidential election. It is a so called swing state. What is the mood in the state, whose election results are historically close.

37 Grad: André im Goldfieber - ZDF

A family man between adventure and everyday life. André has gold fever. Thousands of treasure hunters trying to find the „Lost Dutchman Mine“, a legendary gold mine in Arizona that has been the subject of endless stories since the death of the alleged discoverer in 1891.

Treated like trash: Inside Europe's largest rubbish ghetto - ENTR

More than 1,000 children live in Europe’s largest waste related ghetto in Romania. The fact that they all belong to the Roma community is down to one specific reason: the minority group experiences persistent discrimination throughout Europe.

Die Story im Ersten: Der getriebene Präsident - ARD

A year ago, Joe Biden, as the 46th President of the United States, entered the White House with a big promise: he wanted to reconcile Americans, heal the soul of the divided nation. „America is back!“ was Biden’s mantra – to his own citizens, but also to the world. A year later, the question is what Joe Biden has been able to achieve so far.

Weltspiegel-Reportage: Amerikas Kampf ums Wasser - ARD

There is no longer enough water in the western United States. The worst drought is raging there in 20 years, and farmers are giving up individual fields more and more often. Hedge Funds buy the farmland – the associated water rights…

Triff... - Harriet Tubman - KIKA

This time, Clarissa, as a time-travelling celebrity reporter, meets America’s most famous slave liberator. Harriet Tubman is born a slave and first flees north for freedom herself – then she always returns to free others. Clarissa sees them on their legendary and daring escapes. In Boston, she meets 14-year-old Sofia, who is fighting to put Harriet Tubman’s picture on the $20 bill.

Trumps Amerika - Die fremd gewordene Supermacht - ARD

The USA in the 2020 election year: more than two million people infected with corona, the country torn apart by a racism debate. A president who raises doubts about the elections via Twitter. A last gasp from someone who will soon be voted out? Or is a sole ruler installed here? At the beginning of the year, things were looking good for Donald Trump: the economy was booming, unemployment was at a 50-year low, his poll numbers were soaring, and the Democrats were preoccupied with themselves. But then Corona came. A danger that the President did not want to admit at first. Miraculously, the virus will disappear, he said.