The Bloody Truth

This film tells the story of the unknown pre-history of the AIDS virus, long before people started to die in the US and Europe. Following a team of scientists we uncover a forgotten medical archive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that tells of an epidemic a full two decades before anyone knew about the novel killer. From high-tech labs in the US to African medics who have their boots on the ground, we trace HIV back to its origin in the jungles of Cameroon. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, colonialism fundamentally ch...

North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes

Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations - exploiting the profits to fulfil their own agenda. These bonded labourers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world including EU member states. Featuring undercover footage and powerful testimonials, we reveal the scale and brutality of the operation and ask what, if anything, is being done to stop it.

Lviv - A Hospital in Wartime

In March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia is raging. While Russian troops are at the gates of Kyiv, this documentary films events in a paediatric hospital in Lviv treating the victims of the conflict. A powerful portrait of a doctor’s daily life in wartime.

End of Red October

Murmansk, a Russian port located near the Arctic Circle. Murmansk was a key military port of the entire Soviet nuclear submarine fleet. Today, only tons of dangerous radioactive material remain - like a ticking time bomb, threatening the North Sea environment, but also the whole globe. A team of German scientists has taken on a monumental task: to safely store 200 nuclear submarines and icebreakers so that they do not endanger our environment. The document captures step by step all the steps that experts have to take to fulfill this challeng...