S1.E4 ∙ Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Veranda

The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a "global and most urgent threat". The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a "post-antibiotic age". The film tells us how we got there: It is a story about how negligence, greed, and short-sightedness have rendered the lifesaving effects of antibiotics powerless. It is a science-thriller about disillusioned, fighting doctors, rebellious scientists, patients wrestling with life-threatening diseases and diplomats searching for a global solution. They all are Resistance Fighters.

A look at the debate over same sex marriage in the USA. The reasons behind it are illustrated with real life couples that have run afoul of current laws despite varying levels of planning. Also, the reasons against it are debunked by proponents.

It is 1889 and the citizens of Johnstown, Pennsylvania and other towns in the Conemaugh River valley are decimated when the dam upstream at the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club explodes. Accounts of survivors show physical and emotional terror of the flood experience as one in every ten residents die by drowning, crushing, impalement or burning. The official death toll is 2209. Estimates in newspapers range as high as 15,000. Some blame the steel millionaires and wealthy bankers who own the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club.

August 1961: The GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin, the city is divided. A year later, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape through a 135 meter long tunnel to the west. For more than four months, 41 students from West Berlin dug this tunnel. They put their lives on the line - for friends, relatives, lovers and political ideals. They sell the film rights to the US television station NBC .: In 1999 the award-winning documentary "The Tunnel" tells the spectacular story of this escape. Today, over 20 years later, the film has been remake in HD and in Cinescope format. The story and the spectacular NBC material that was recovered from the attic of one of the tunnel builders have lost none of their topicality, explosiveness and uniqueness in the face of global refugee crises, isolation and walls. The two Italians Mimmo and Gigi, who dug the tunnel for their friend Peter Schmidt and later concluded the deal with NBC, have already died. But some of the tunnel builders, now in their eighties, are still alive. They tell their stories, including Inge and Klaus Stürmer. The joint attempt to escape in 1961 failed: only Klaus Stürmer managed to escape to the West. Inge Stürmer, mother of a toddler and pregnant, was arrested and sentenced to prison. Klaus Stürmer worked on the tunnel to bring his family to him. The images of the tunnel construction and the successful escape went around the world when the film was broadcast by NBC to an audience of millions on December 10, 1962. "Tunnel of Freedom" tells of the daring young people, of trust and solidarity, of the search for freedom and overcoming walls. The film combines emotionally charged biographies into a unique political drama of the Iron Curtain.

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river on a journey alongside the banks of the present, unveiling the marks of thee past.

In 1994, journalist Enza Massa visited the Italian National Library in Rome. While she was researching old texts, Enza discovered a book titled "NOSTRADAMUS VATICANICA CODE", dating back to 1629. And the author of the book, as written inside, was "Michel de Notredame". The book contained many vivid paintings and cryptic messages. This TV Documentary follows the investigation of how the manuscript came to be found in the archives, and exactly how it got there. With new insights into the life of Nostradamus, his relationship with his family, and political and the religious figures of his time.