Documentary based on the book by Erich von Däniken concerning the ancient mysteries of the world, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, ancient cave drawings, the monuments of Easter Island, etc., and the fact that these things and modern civilisation could have been influenced by extraterrestrial visitations hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of years ago.

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

A pilot crashes his plane in the desert, in the middle of the night. There is no one in the vast distance. Suddenly, a miraculous figure of a child emerges from the darkness - "The Little Prince". He asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Now there are two of them in a vast desert with only one water source. They get closer and bond with each other.

A German Film Award winning documentary about the production of seamless steel tubes.