The Stars Over Broken Hill
Outback Mines. Space Frontiers.
In Australia’s historic mining town of Broken Hill, a landscape once defined by boom-and-bust mineral extraction is now helping power a new frontier—space exploration—revealing how the industrial foundations built on Earth are helping enable humanity’s push into space.
Disrupting Democracy: Italy’s 2018 Election
Italy’s 2018 election proved to be the latest shock to western democracies. By wide margins, Italians voted for populist movements at the expense of traditional parties. In May, the populist Five Star Movement and the right-wing Lega Party reached a tentative agreement to form a new governing coalition. Why did Italian voters risk putting their future in the hands of untested populists? From youth unemployment to a slumping working class and a simmering migration crisis, this documentary by the Bertelsmann Foundation goes inside a country at a crossroads.
