With their colours, shapes and scents, flowers enchant and fascinate us. This series offers 3 spectacular films on the most popular flowers we thought we knew all about. Tulips, jasmine and cherry blossom will surprise you! These flowers are increasingly a part of our daily… Read More

In 2011 the documentary program Four Corners from the Australian public broadcaster ABC reported on a Dutch National Crime Squad  and Australian Federal Police joint police operation into the notorious Dutch Haklander syndicate. The Dutch authorities provided information to the Australians that eventually led to the… Read More

With their colours, shapes and scents, flowers enchant and fascinate us. This series offers 3 spectacular films on the most popular flowers we thought we knew all about. Tulips, jasmine and cherry blossom will surprise you! These flowers are increasingly a part of our daily… Read More

For an American documentary produced by Shareen Anderson from the production company Fort Greene Filmworks accompaniment of filming in the center of Amsterdam is needed at short notice. Shareen Anderson is an award-winning filmmaker who combines her love of filmmaking with a passion for culture,… Read More

For a 30 minute documentary about a famous Japanese sportsperson filming needs to take place in the Netherlands. For this two vans and two drivers are needed for the sportsperson, people that accompany the sportsperson and for a large crew. For the rest general assistance… Read More

To fight overpopulation in French jails, prime minister Michel Barnier wants to introduce short prison sentences and to make greater use of community service, administrative fines and fixed penalties for criminal offences. The Netherlands has a lot of experience with short and alternative community sentences… Read More

A reportage about the need for attention for better accessibility for wheelchair users in public space portraying Dutchman Kees-Jan van der Klooster. He won a gold medal in mono-skiing at the Paralympic Winter Games and is organizing clinics teaching wheelchair users to overcome the many… Read More

Over the past 40 years, much has been cut back in the field of ageing and elderly care in the Netherlands: the ‘old people’s homes’ and care homes are no more and elderly can only go to a nursing home when they are very sick…. Read More

‘Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses are measured out in murders.’ This new eight-part investigative podcast series from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia reveals that the world’s legitimate business empires, trading floors and boardrooms have… Read More

Although selling cannabis has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades, growing cannabis is still illegal. Soon, this might change because the government is experimenting with legal weed production. In 2019, the Dutch government launched a cannabis experiment in which entrepreneurs can start growing cannabis… Read More

European elections in the Netherlands On Thursday 6 June, the Netherlands was the first of the 27 countries of the European Union to vote. The Dutch alliance between the left and the ecologists came out on top with eight MEP seats out of the 31… Read More

Because of the swing to the right in the last Dutch national elections, NHK Europe correspondent Yasuko Takeda covers the European elections in the Netherlands. The reportage zooms in on the rise of the Freedom Party from Geert Wilders that won the elections and that… Read More