For a background reportage about the innovative Dutch food branch Japanese public TV channel NHK sends journalist Ryusuke Kimura to the Netherlands. He reports about the modern and durable Dutch greenhouse sector, visits the Restaurant of the Future at the Agricultural University Wageningen in the… Read More

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Cameroon NHK Sports journalists Yuki Ohba produces a series of portraits of the teams that the national football team of Japan will face in the first round of the World Cup in South Africa. The NHK crew films at… Read More

The collapse of the Dutch government has presented the Dutch electorate with a problem to which no easy solution seems obvious. The government has split over the question of troops in Afghanistan, but this can be seen as merely the explosive element that has blown… Read More

Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004. The series is produced by Wall to Wall. In each episode, a celebrity goes on a journey to trace his or her family tree. The… Read More

There is a bicycle revolution going on. Cities in North America have suddenly begun to provide cyclists with facilities (bike lanes, secure lock-ups, etc.) and are looking at Public Bike systems for their citizens. The Canadian documentary production company Cogent Benger Productions Inc. produces a… Read More

In Japan students of a well-known university are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, correspondent Go Kamosiha from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK travels to Amsterdam… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

They have taken over the world. We love them, but now that we have so many of them, they are destroying our cities and our lives. Cars and gridlock. This documentary weaves through the choked cities of North America and Europe seeking solutions to the… Read More

Fulcrum TV and Medialab are producing a documentary about mummification. Michael, an American man who is terminally ill, will donate his body to science that is exploring the technology behind mummification. His wife is accompanying him to Egypt to be part of the story about… Read More

Since November 2007 it is known that the far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be launched on the internet before the first of April 2008. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader… Read More

After the local elections in 2006 Ahmed Marcouch became the first Muslim mayor of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart. The Social Democrat is a man of action, resolutely pushing through tough measures – something that doesn’t always win him friends. Most of Slotervaart’s 45,000 inhabitants have… Read More

ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on the island Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from the main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime… Read More