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A film about music, war and hope. It follows 9 unique individuals, including Ukrainian musicians, a deaf composer, a Polish rock star, a best-selling author, a legendary cartoonist and the director himself, as they grab the Ninth's legacy.

Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.

Florence Foster Jenkins unexpectedly gains a cult following. Her recordings outsell many modern artists. Opera star Joyce DiDonato's performance contrasts Jenkins' dissonant singing, emphasizing the film's delusion vs. reality theme.

Three Austin women join a lawsuit with others arguing rape goes unprosecuted. Despite setbacks, they persevere to hold law enforcement accountable for inaction and catalyze change.

Three young prodigies and their families exploring the popular and competitive world of piano playing in China.

Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

The stories tell about 60 faked works of art, ranging from Pollock over Rothko to Motherwell. And about nine-figure losses. The forgery scandal regarding the Knoedler Gallery in New York outweighs by far the one concerning Beltracchi.

Beloved, stolen, hidden. Over more than 70 years museums, collectors and private owners have been dragging at Egon Schiele's "Wally". At the core of it all is the question how justice can be reinstalled after all the criminal acts of the Nazi time.

Three masterpieces simply disappear. Robbed from the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt. It is the greatest art theft in German history. But how will the art thieves manage to install the loot on the market? A nerve racking tug-of-war, a struggle between the thieves, mafia bosses, dealers, lawyers, investigators, insurances and museums begins.

Strauss is a contradiction as such, composing opposites of seeming misfits. Christian Thielemann reflects on this: "I often visited Strauss' home in Garmisch, up to this day nothing has been changed. You still see the beer mugs, you may imagine the bourgeois person living here, sleeping in starched linen, playing cards, and of course he would be enjoying a really good Sundays roast - that is the atmosphere pervading. And that this composer would then drift off to such remote walks of life as for instance with "Elektra" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" is more than remarkable. To fathom this contradiction in Strauss' music, wavering between middle class life and artistic excess, between return to the past and holding up traditions as well as overcoming boundaries - nobody could possibly do it better than Thielemann. Thielemann, too, like Strauss is a bourgeois person at the bottom of his heart with a great love for German culture, quite an awe inspiring house at the Griebnitz Lake and a large art collection. "I frankly admit", he says, "I just love it all. Good wine, good music, wonderful orchestras."

Two outstanding artists, one location, and an acrimonious rivalry - these are the key ingredients for the five-part series "The Antagonists: Rivalry in Art" which deals with envy and burning ambition, drive and the desire to reach new heights of artistic creation, as well as failure and the triumph of success. At the heart of each episode lies a conflict and a break with tradition that will eventually lead to innovation. Through their rivalry we will come to understand their real character and their fascinating stories will be revealed. 1. Episode: Michelangelo vs Leoardo. 2. Episode: Van Gogh vs Gauguin. 3. Episode: Nolde vs Liebermann. 4. Episode: Caravaggio vs Baglione. 5. Episode: Turner vs Constable.