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- This series is an expedition through wild Switzerland. In four films we take to the stage of nature, search for the big and small dramas that take place in the animal and plant world, explore the origins of time-honoured myths and legends about busy dwarfs and scary dragons. And we tell stories of people who live and work in the midst of this nature.
- Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods. For a long time, scholars thought the tales of human sacrifices were Roman propaganda. Archaeologists were all the more surprised when actually finding a Celtic ritual site in the Swabian Jura that contained traces of human sacrifices. Today, the druids' spirituality still serves as an example for many people. For the past 300 years, there has been a Neo-Druidry.
- Modern forgery or sensational artifact? This film seeks to answer the age-old debate surrounding the authenticity of the 4,000-year-old Phaistos Disc.
- Nikita Khrushchev was a devoted supporter of Stalin, but eventually put an end to his predecessor's regime of terror. In this documentary his family members, along with historians, bring to life his story and a piece of Soviet history.
- Peter Hahne was a talk show on ZDF. Moderator was Peter Hahne.
- Scientists use state-of-the-art technology to battle the conservation dangers threatening the millions of animals that migrate through Panama.
- Several millennium ago, the desert of Turkmenistan was home to prosperous kingdoms at the crossroads of ancient civilizations. Close-up on these forgotten cities.
- This documentary examines the mysterious practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egypt as researchers explore the labyrinth of Tuna el-Gebel.