Helmut Kohl
Also Known As: Helmut Josef Michael Kohl
Biography: Helmut Kohl was a German politician. He was the sixth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1982 to 1998.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ludwigshafen, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: April 03, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 16, 2017
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In the Grip of Gazprom
Overview: The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-02-07
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Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Overview: Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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This Ain't California
Overview: A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
Genres: Documentary History Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-15
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Is was, Kanzler?
Overview: October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of circulation, the secret service accidentally kills the real chancellor, who is floating dead in the swimming pool. Agent Erwin of the Federal Criminal Police Office is assigned to solve the case...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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Endstation Bad Kleinen - Vom Versagen deutscher Sicherheitsorgane
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-06-18
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Die Sekretäre
Overview: The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow. The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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The Germans and Their Men
Overview: A documentary with fictious elements. Ms. Elisabeth (Lieschen) Müller from Austria comes to Bonn, Germany to find herself a man. During the search she investigates the connections between neckties, political power and prostitution, and tries to look for the influence the german feminist movement had on the men in Germany's capital.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-06
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Lebenslänglich Politik: Der ewige Schäuble
Overview: He has always been there. No one has been in German politics as long as Wolfgang Schäuble. He looked back on 50 years as a member of the German Bundestag. Schäuble was a man who helped shape the fate of the Republic for decades. He shaped politics - as the manager of German unity, for example. In 1990, he was the victim of an assassination attempt and fought his way back to life. He died in December 2023.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-09-15
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When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
Overview: A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and international level.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Laboratory Greece
Overview: A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-08
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Black Box BRD
Overview: Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due to the power struggle of the German state and the "Red Army Faction". Society is torn, the fronts are irreconcilable. The life stories of both Wolfgang Grams and Alfred Herrhausen are tragically linked to this era. Grams is the one who takes up arms for moral rigor; Herrhausen however seizes power and dies when powerful.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-05-24
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Trading Germans
Overview: A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Bimbes: Die schwarzen Kassen des Helmut Kohl
Overview: During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. This documentary explores the question of what this word of honor was really all about
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-12-04
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The Great European Disaster Movie
Overview: 2014-2015: 17. The Great European Disaster Movie Authored documentary by Italian director Annalisa Piras and former editor of The Economist Bill Emmott, which explores the crisis facing Europe. Through case studies of citizens in different countries, the film explores a range of factors that have led to the present crisis, economic and identity challenges across Europe. High-level experts analyse how and why things are going so wrong. The film includes fictional scenes, set in a post-EU future, which feature archaeologist Charles Granda (played by Angus Deayton) travelling on a flight through a menacing storm, explaining to a child passenger what the EU was. Sombre, thought-provoking and witty, the film frames Europe through the eyes of those who have most at stake - the Europeans themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-01
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Im Rausch der Macht
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-16
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Der Reichstag
Overview: Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the Nazi dictatorship, and was rebuilt after its partial destruction.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-12-19
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Tunnel to Freedom
Overview: 13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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Hannelore Kohl - Die erste Frau
Overview: Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers too. Last but not least, his success was based on her strength. Hannelore Kohl lived in her husband's iron power system. When she fell seriously ill, Hannelore Kohl retreated more and more from the light of the public to a life in the dark. Until she put an end to her life on July 5, 2001. The documentation chronologically traces the life of Hannelore Kohl using archive recordings from over half a century of German history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-05-01
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Ein Ehrenmann geht…
Overview: The film follows the career of Karl-Theodor Molinari from major in the Wehrmacht to general in the Bundeswehr. Authentic archive material and eyewitness testimonies are used to gather evidence of Molinari's guilt in the deaths of over a hundred French resistance fighters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny
Overview: The successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, happy, successful, with three charming children named Bo, Marie and Fe. But now, in their late 40s, their relationship is threatened by a crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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The Queen and the Prime Ministers
Overview: Danish documentary about the relationship between Queen Magrethe II and the prime ministers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-01-13
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Franz Josef Strauß - Ein deutsches Leben
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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