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Drama series following a doctor looking after the most gravely unwell patients in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hitler's war machine was feared and ruthless - for a time. It cut a swathe through Europe and North Africa, and threatened Russia. Early in the War, Hitler's dream of dominating Europe was a distinct possibility, but then cracks appeared.

A docudrama telling the story of the events that unfolded when a Scottish army led by Robert Bruce tried to drive the English out of Scotland 700 years ago.

Academics, public relations experts, and satirists of various kinds describe the history and nature of propaganda.

This enlightening series is made by the producer of the epic BAFTA nominated series, Attenborough's Life of Birds, and the international 52' version is narrated by actor Dominic West.

The Cineflex-camera, developed by US secret services, brings razor sharp aerial close-ups and breathtaking panoramic images to life. Filmed exclusively with aerial shots, this is a unique cinematic expedition from the peaks of Mont Blanc to the Dolomites and traces the history and geography of the Alps.

Their names were Herta, Liesel, Liselotte and Hildegard: Hundreds of thousands of women, including secretaries, nurses, housewives and concentration camp guards, put themselves in the service of Nazi ideology in the German-occupied areas from 1939 onwards. The women were not passive witnesses to a genocide committed by men, but active accomplices and murderers. In the history of the Second World War, the role of women was often only marginally recognized. Around 500,000 of them were active in the areas occupied by the Wehrmacht from 1939 - where the Holocaust was actually implemented.

In the fall of 2013, Ukraine became involved in a tug-of-war between the EU and Russia. Both wanted to tie the country closer to them. Extensive protests broke out in the country when it appeared that the then president had canceled the negotiations with the EU on a rapprochement. The center of the protests was Maidan Square in Kyiv. The consequences of the protests were both far-reaching and dramatic.

Castro's Spies tells the thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban intelligence agents sent undercover to the US in the 1990s.

Katarina Witt is the most successful female athlete in the history of figure skating with two Olympic victories, four world championship and six European championship titles. She combines East German identity with international flair and is to this day the "most beautiful face of socialism" - and the most internationally known citizen of the former GDR. She has reinvented herself again and again: as an East German ice princess, as an international show star, as an ambassador for sport. To this day, she confidently stands by her GDR origins, which many give her high credit, but which also brought her hostility.

Born in 1859, William Henry McCarty never knew his father. As a teenager, he followed his mother in a convoy of pioneers on their way west. Once in New Mexico, his mother died and the young man was left to fend for himself at the age of 15. He became a cowboy in Arizona and killed a man in self-defense. Convicted of murder, he escapes. From homicides to stories of cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, the whole mythology of the Wild West is embodied in Billy the Kid. Since King Vidor's "Billy the Kid" in 1930, the outlaw has fueled the imagination of some fifteen directors, the most memorable film being Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973.

Coming from the upper industrial bourgeoisie of Wuppertal, the young Friedrich Engels much preferred philosophy and politics to business. Having observed in the family textile factories, especially in Manchester, the appalling living conditions of the workers, he theorizes the relations between bourgeoisie and proletariat by relying on the Hegelian dialectic, studied in Berlin. The meeting in 1844 with Karl Marx, whose ideas he shared, sealed an indelible friendship, punctuated by travels, and an intellectual collaboration among the most fruitful in history. From the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" to "Capital", of which Engels will rework and publish the last volumes after the death of his friend, their two names will remain inseparable.

How do researchers observe the physical forces at work on the Sun's surface? Can we recreate in the laboratory the nuclear fusion that takes place at its heart? What would be the impact of a major solar storm on the power grids of an interconnected world? With astrophysicists, nuclear energy researchers, historians of science, artists and hunters of the aurora borealis - a phenomenon caused by the entry of particles from the solar wind into the Earth's atmosphere - this documentary sets out to discover a star that has been a symbol of life since the dawn of humanity.

Marlon Brando dreamed of turning the Tetiaroa atoll in French Polynesia into a natural sanctuary open to scientists. This ecological project has been ongoing since the actor's death in 2004.

A docudrama on John F. Kennedy's early travels through Europe with his best friend Lem Billings. A road trip that would lay the foundation for JFK's later love for Europe and its countries, such as Germany.

In 2008, at a top-secret facility in Virginia, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is working to uncover the criminal resources that feed the coffers of the Iranian-backed Shiite movement based in Lebanon. The DEA knows that the organization, in order to pursue its military and terrorist activities, is involved in cocaine and arms trafficking to the tune of a billion dollars a year. But because the investigation was getting dangerously close to the inner circle of power in Teheran, which Washington was trying to spare in order to save the Iranian nuclear negotiations, the censored agency did not obtain authorization to take action.

Among the 600 or so compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns, who died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, the whimsical suite "The Carnival of the Animals" remains his most famous work.

A colorful portrait of Jane Fonda, actress and activist, resonating with recent American history, its dreams and its disillusions.

Since the mid-90s, German board games such as CATAN have enjoyed international success and are considered export hits. How could this success come about in Germany of all places? Who are these people who dedicate their lives to games?