Arte Movies

There was a time when the DC-3 was the world's most successful aircraft and an indispensable tool: its military version became a crucial factor in ach...

Docudrama examining the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Monuments to him can b...

Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges....

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German We...

London 1976: Between economic crises and the Silver Jubilee, something is brewing in the squats and basement clubs of West London: Punk. A promise, a...

Rolf Eden is Germany’s last playboy. As ‘king of disco’ he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West German...

Filmed just over a century after the first tank battle in 1918, this documentary series explores how the vehicles forever changed warfare.

The loss of youth and innocence can be played for comedy or tragedy. The stunning black-and-white cinematography and hypnotic electric guitar that fil...

After a heart attack, a singer recovers in a sanatorium.

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in Co...

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is unemplo...

The fate of a religious and a young woman intertwine when they both suffer the loss of a loved one.

As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into...

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of grea...