- The Shakespeare Enigma
- Ketchup in Tuva
- Charles Darwin
The Devil's Chaplain? - Henry VIII. –
Murderer on the throne - The Last Battle of the Celts
- Tunesia – Mirage Between Desert And Ocean
- The Quest for the Spice Islands
- The Dream of Taj Mahal
- Buddha – The Way to Enlightenment
- Mohammed – The Voice of God
- Tragedy at Devil's Gate – The Mormon Trek through the U.S.A.
- Storm Across Asia - Alexander the Great conquers the world
- Coming home late - Giora Feidman’s Klezmer
- Tim Severin’s The China Voyage
- Attila the Hun
- Edgar Hilsenrath
- The Castle of Forgotten Mummies
- The Star and Its Shadow - Forced Labour Daimler-Benz
- Forget Columbus - America's Secret Discoverers
- Tsa'amri – The White man Who Became an Indian
- Atlantis – In Search of a Lost Continent
Buddha – The Way to Enlightenment
Siddhartha Gautama was no liberator or reformer. He was the "enlightened" one – a title, given to him by his followers. In his state of total enlightenment, Buddha could have left the world forever, and entered long awaited Nirvana. He remained, however, to show his ever increasing band of followers the way to achieve self-redemption. His most important message: The world is a place of suffering. Human beings can only escape the cycle of reincarnation by choosing the right thinking and behavior, and by overcoming greed, hate and envy.
Coming from a royal household, Buddha lived a life of luxury during his childhood and youth. He was deeply moved by chance meetings with people, living in poverty. He became an ascetic to transcend the transience of the world. For seven years, he sought in vain for enlightenment, through hunger and self-mortification. He then realized that he could only reach his aim on a purely spiritual path. Meditating under a fig tree, he finally did attain enlightenment and realized the "four noble truths": suffering, the origin of suffering, the destruction of suffering and the path, which leads there. Thus he laid the foundations of a religion, that over 330 million people believe in today.
How did the historical figure Buddha actually live? How did he found and organize his monastic orders? And why did the Buddhist doctrine appeal to so many? The film searches for answers to these questions in monasteries, libraries, and holy places in India , Sri Lanka and Tibet . It shows an impressive panoramic view of Buddhism and follows the life and work of a charismatic leader, who founded a religion without gods.