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In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German and Dutch police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends badly.

A documentary that tells the stories of Turkish workers who went from Turkey to Germany since 1950. It generally tells the stories of musicians of Turkish origin in Germany.

Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.

Don't Forget Me is a dark comedy about the need to be out of your mind in order to fall madly in love.

"Family of Choice" is a LGBT-documentary series on RTL Deutschland.

A female lawyer fights for the rule of law and becomes a threat to the Turkish state.

Sarah, an Afro-German, travels to Southern Africa with her daughter to give her the relationships she herself lacked. The story of a torn family between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa.

A young pigeon fighter in Cairo leads his area into the final battle. While pigeons may symbolize peace, here they reflect martial spirit and pride. For the first time the legendary pigeon races of Cairo are captured on camera.

1960 marked the end of the colonial empires across the African continent. France disappeared from the map, leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, which is the name of the currency that still circulates in almost all of its former territories south of the Sahara. How does it come, those countries, once they regained their freedom, never denounced this strange legacy? The film delves into a little-known story that started in the 19th century and continues to the present time.

Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who have worked together for more than 40 years, are devoted to protecting their country's visual memories. Home to some 13,000 films, the archive preserves pivotal moments of Sudan's turbulent history and is one of the largest in Africa. But the archive is in a fragile state. Following years of neglect and poor storage, many film reels are turning to dust in Sudan's unforgiving tropical climate. The two friends are determined to turn it around and embark on a mission to save the old films. Will they succeed in preserving Sudan's visual history for future generations before it's too late?

A Berlin big band sets out on a road trip to explore the infamous brass sections of the seventies together with legendary musicians from Mali.

PAARTHERAPIE - NOW OR NEVER accompanies four couples who want to actively address the challenges of their relationships by seeking support by a couple therapist.

Murat, Juri and Cornelia are among the so-called "working poor" - as click workers, in a cardboard factory and as freelance parcel deliverers, they are only linked by their low wages. Each one fights on his or her own.

Hungary during the 2022 election campaign: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán relies on a level of media control unprecedented in the EU. A group of young journalists takes on the state propaganda.

Since the dawn of times, the inhabitants of a small village in Burkina Faso had been living with gold. But today, there is no longer any, a multinational company exploiting all natural resources. The film follows the struggle of the local population to denounce this injustice and claim their dignity.

Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. A tragic reflection of the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners after the failure of the Oslo Accords.

A tale about my mother and brothers from other mothers.

Schwesta Ewa's life is shaped by extremes: emigration, violence, prostitution, the rise to a german rap superstar and finally the hard fall - arrest, conviction and jail - but also the birth of her daughter. For the 6-part documentary series we follow her starting with her release from prison in February 2021. We tell the story of a woman who has been struggling for personal freedom all her life. What are her plans and desires for the future? Will she be able to leave her past behind?

VON ARMUT BEDROHT follows the journalist Thilo Mischke who meets five people living on the edge of poverty and tells their personal stories.

Susan Kigula is a self-confident, strong woman. She is always well dressed and, like any businesswoman, she navigates through her challenging everyday life with power and determination. But Susan spent 16 years in prison, charged with murdering her husband and sentenced to death in 2002. Giving up was never an option for her and it never will be. While in prison, Susan studied law and in an historic Supreme Court verdict on January 21, 2009, her case changed the laws of her country: no more mandatory death sentence on charges of murder. Today, Susan helms her own organisation, helping orphaned children of prisoners and empowering former female inmates in their reintegration, a challenge no one else is tackling in Uganda. Her turbulent life story continues to shape her everyday life.

Twelve therapy sessions, no taboo subjects and the camera is right there. For the twelve-part documentary series "Eric vs Stehfest: In Therapy", TVNOW accompanies actor and bestselling author Eric Stehfest during his psychotherapy, where he wants to find out who he is and where he wants to go. Look forward to a new episode four times a week with unfiltered insights into the life of the 31-year-old.

This is the story of Emrah, a young man who grew up in Germany to Serbian parents. Now a convicted repeat offender, he no longer qualifies for German citizenship and has been deported to Serbia. It is a country whose language he barely speaks, whose social conventions he's never learned. He lives in a run-down hotel which has been transformed into a facility to house other young adults like him, who have been expelled from Germany. They are left to their own devices, with no support for their re-integration.