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21:15 The Sputnik Shock
When the Soviet Union succeeded in launching a satellite into orbit in 1957, the world reacted with fear and fascination in equal measure. Western scientists...
When the Soviet Union succeeded in launching a satellite into orbit in 1957, the world reacted with fear and fascination in equal measure. Western scientists were stunned. In the Eastern Bloc, the Sputnik launch was celebrated as proof of Soviet technological superiority. A documentary about the Space Race, and the myths and realities of the first manmade Earth satellite.
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union opened the door to a new era: Sputnik 1, a metal sphere 58 cm in diameter and weighing 83 kg hurtled around the globe at cosmic speed. It was a sensation. US President Eisenhower struggled to project calm, continuing to play golf and stating that he was not frightened in the least by the little metal ball in space. But the Sputnik hype had already got out of hand. How were nations to deal with the historic event? For years the Soviet Union had developed its rocket science in secret and let the Americans believe that they were leading in the race into the cosmos. Before Sputnik, many in the West had viewed the Soviet Union as a developing country, economically and scientifically backward. And now it was soaring into space? Inconceivable! The Soviets suddenly seemed to be taking the technological lead. In the West, the mood fluctuated between panic, fascination and disillusionment. The Sputnik Shock is a film about winners and losers, about the background to and secrets of the first expedition into space. And it tells the story of the man who made Sputnik possible: Chief Designer Sergei Korolev. The world only learned his name after his death, when his ashes were interred with state honors in the Kremlin wall in 1965. Attempts to nominate him for a Nobel Prize had been blocked by the secretive leaders in the Kremlin
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah...
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah Willis gets up close and personal with the stars of the classical music world.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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21:15 Interpol – Who Controls the World Police?
The international crime-fighting organization Interpol and its agents are the stuff of legend. Nearly 200 countries belong to the 'international super-police'...
The international crime-fighting organization Interpol and its agents are the stuff of legend. Nearly 200 countries belong to the 'international super-police' agency - but it’s funding does not cover its ambitious projects. That is why it has entered collaborating with corporations, shady groups embroiled and controversial states, something hitherto unthinkable. Is Interpol losing its integrity.
So far, the media has rarely been able to get a look behind the scenes at Interpol. The forerunner of the present organization was founded nearly a century ago to strengthen cooperation between national police authorities. With increasing globalization and the associated rise in international organized crime, the challenges for the agency, which now has 192 member-states, have also grown. When Ronald Noble, an American, became Secretary General of Interpol in 2000, the world's largest police organization underwent a dramatic turnaround. Noble's dream was to create an 'international super-police'. To achieve that goal, Interpol entered into previously unimaginable cooperation agreements with large corporations such as Philip Morris International and Sanofi, as well as organizations suspected of corruption such as FIFA. Interpol has been criticized for disregarding serious conflicts of interest arising from the potential influence of private donors on investigations. At the same time, some controversial countries began to fund the world police. In March 2017, for example, the United Arab Emirates gave Interpol 50 million euros - as much as contributions from all the other member states put together. But surely such a grant from a single country raises questions about the independence of the recipient. What alliances is Interpol prepared to enter into in order to expand? Is it possible to finance policing through private donations without compromising integrity and accountability? Is this the first step toward a new world order in which collaboration between police authorities and large international companies is seen as normal?
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23:15 Khajuraho – Temple of Divine Procreation, India
The temples at Khajuraho in Central India continue to shock or confuse many visitors even today. The exterior walls feature more than 2000 sculptures of...
The temples at Khajuraho in Central India continue to shock or confuse many visitors even today. The exterior walls feature more than 2000 sculptures of deities and other celestial beings, dancers and mythical creatures. But what the temples are perhaps most famous for is their erotic sculptures, known as maithunas, designed to glorify the gods.
In a burst of creative energy, the sculptors produced an exuberant glorification of life, depicting an opulent, sensual and joyous encounter between the divine and the profane worlds. Their use of Kaimur sandstone allowed them to depict the most intricate details. But it is important to interpret the images correctly in the context of Hindu mythology. The acts of lovemaking depicted are seen not just as the union of man and woman but above all the act of divine procreation through which the world was created. There were originally 85 temples, all built over 1000 years ago. 25 have survived to this day. Each temple was built according to fixed rules and based on the proportions of the human body
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03:15 Nelson Mandela – A Life for Liberty
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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21:15 Nelson Mandela – A Life for Liberty
Nelson Mandela was born 100 years ago. The man many South Africans call the father of their country was imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid regime....
Nelson Mandela was born 100 years ago. The man many South Africans call the father of their country was imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid regime. Later he was sworn in as the first freely elected president of a democratic South Africa. His friend Desmond Tutu once called Mandela "God’s gift to our nation". The world remembers this remarkable man as a symbol of humanity and reconciliation.
The 'grand old man' of Africa, born on 18 July 1918, remains a legendary figure with extraordinary charisma. The "Mandela phenomenon" has been the subject of books and films, and it continues to exert a huge fascination. It was no coincidence that Nelson Mandela’s father gave him the name Rolihlahla, the troublemaker. It was women who first began to tame the wild young man. Then there was the 27-year prison sentence that, as Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu said, "did not embitter Nelson Mandela in the fight for freedom, but ennobled him.†But the price of liberation from the ruthless apartheid state was high: isolation, torture, betrayal. The regime tried to break Mandela by targeting his most precious asset, his wife Winnie and their two daughters. Later, Mandela raised fabulous sums of money as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a former president and the face of numerous charities. Scandals overshadowed the hero's reputation; he was embroiled in allegations of embezzlement, counterfeiting and fraud amounting to millions. But in spite of all the many unanswered questions, Mandela, who died on 5 December 2013, is still revered by his compatriots. "Nelson Mandela - A Life for Liberty" was made with the help of the former leader’s friends. The result is a highly personal portrait that shows how triumphs and tragedies shaped the life of this historic figure and how much the diverse and divided country of South Africa owes to the 'Father of the Nation'.
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23:15 Carcassonne – The Fairy Tale of a Castle, France
When Walt Disney visited Carcassonne, he was so enchanted by this medieval fortress town that he took it as a template for his film "Snow White." In fact,...
When Walt Disney visited Carcassonne, he was so enchanted by this medieval fortress town that he took it as a template for his film "Snow White." In fact, Carcassonne with its narrow streets is still the epitome of a medieval stronghold.
Our film tells the history of the city from the perspective of Lady Carcas, a probably mythical figure who allegedly gave it its name. When the Emperor Charlemagne pulled his forces back from the city after an unsuccessful siege, Carcas - the widow of the Moorish king who had been killed in the fighting - ordered the city’s bells to be rung behind the parting troops in order to persuade them to return and make peace. One of Charlemagne’s squires gave him the news "Carcas rings" - "Carcas sonne" - hence Carcassonne. Prior to this, Lady Carcas had, however, taken the very last pig left after the five-year siege and stuffed it with the last grain in the city and hurled the fattened animal at the Emperor’s feet. The trick led Charlemagne to conclude that the city had apparently inexhaustible food reserves and that continuing the siege of the city was pointless. Iberian Celts founded the city, which is located between Montpellier and Toulouse in the south of France, in the 6th Century BC. The Romans turned the hill into a fortress by building a protective wall. The city was occupied by the Visigoths in the 5th Century AD and by the Arabs in the 8th Century: Pippin the Short finally drove them out in 759. In the 12th Century, Count Trencavel built a castle on the old Roman walls at the highest point of the hill. Carcassonne became a central pillar in the defenses on France's border with Aragon. In the Mid-13th Century, a second exterior wall was built to reinforce the old one.
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