HISTORY
Keeping it in the family royal
ZDF/arte
HD, 52 mins
The story of the Queen's ancestors and the godfather of Royal Europe.
The British Royal Wedding bought over 100 million people to their TV sets. A true love match, a royal prince marrying a commoner: perfect ingredients for a fairytale wedding.
"How things have changed”, the Queen no doubt thinks to herself...
SCIENCE, CURRENT AFFAIRS
Our dirty water
ZDF/arte
HD, 52 mins
As demand for water rises due to an ever growing world population, the groundwater levels are sinking; deserts are expanding and water is becoming scarce. But there is an even greater threat to the world’s drinking water: our contamination of it.
Cross Media
conquest of the world - the game: new horizon
An online game that enables the viewer to become the adventurer and delve into a world of piracy, a quest for glory and the ultimate goal of bringing yourself and your crew home alive. Especially tailored games will give all members of the audience the opportunity to immerse themselves further into Magellan's and Drake's quests to conquer the globe.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE
Country Dreams
ZDF/arte/Servus TV
HD, 13 x 26 mins
This series will take you to some of the most beautiful gardens in Europe and show how some people really do fulfil their lifelong dreams of escaping to the country. From rose gardens in Italy to the stylish outdoor living in rural Denmark.
NATURAL HISTORY
Dinosaurs - hot on the trail of prehistory
NDR/arte
HD, 52 mins
Germany has always been a blank slate to many palaeontologists and fossil experts, a place the dinosaurs seem to have mysteriously passed by. Then, almost overnight, renowned researchers turned away from Asia, Africa and the USA to set their sights on the Weser Hills of Lower Saxony.
HUMAN INTEREST, MUSIC
Kinshasa Symphony
WDR/RBB
HD, 94 / 54 mins
Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven’s Ninth – Ode To Joy. A power cut strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the least of the worries facing the only symphony orchestra in the Congo.
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE
Hot Roads
ZDF/arte
HD, 5 x 43 mins
They run through deserts, ice and snow, deep into the jungle, alongside dangerous waterways and over mountains. And we're going along for the ride. This series accompanies the most adventurous truckers along some the most dangerous roads in the world.
MUSIC, CULTURE
THE INDIAN PIANIST
HD, 1 x 52 mins
This story of an unprecedented vision is also a blow-by-blow account of a Don Quixote of classical music battling against the windmills of everyday life in India.
HUMAN INTEREST
Oil For Ghana
HD, 90 / 52 mins
Oil, grease of the world economy is becoming scarce. One of the most recent finds is off the coast of Ghana, doubts have been raised that it is the poor Ghanaian people who will benefit. Four years in the making, this documentary will observe the changes, for better or worse, that take place when the oil barons come to town.
HUMAN INTEREST
Nightmare in Dreamland
WDR
HD, 1 x 43mins
Slave labour in Dubai. The documentary casts light on everyday life in the dazzling glitter and glamour of Dubai and reveals the two-faced brutality and the socially accepted abuse of power that much of its domestic life is based on.
