Alexander Kluge Movies

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, which could be considered good without qualification, except a good will." Various egos are at work,...

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

Falling debris from space poses a danger to aircraft for which valid insurance policies have been taken out. Such cases as this are, among others,...

It's said that love is blind. The truth is: Love makes you perceptive. Love stories are fundamental stories. In this realm of experience, we can test...

How does one protect a US president? How dangerous is the situation when, for example, the president holds a speech in Tbilisi which could provoke...

The way in which massacres occur in modern warfare has often been described. "Morale Bombing" also took place in the zoological gardens. The...

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

The holy days, from Good Friday to Easter Monday, aren't long enough to begin a new life. But they're too long to endure without a new life. That is...

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent...

Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real...

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

For a long time, Friedrich Nietzsche shared a young Russian woman with his best friend Paul Rée: Lou Andreas-Salomé. When they met, he...