Peter von Zahn

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.

Mexico in 1910: the aged President Porfirio Diaz has ruled the country for more than thirty years. Foreign investment has made the country flourish and turned its capital Mexico City into a modern cosmopolitan city. Few people know what life is like in the interior of the country: The misery of the indigenous serfs is indescribable. Francisco Madero, a member of a millionaire family, ignites the spark of rebellion. With his pamphlet against Diaz's re-election, he, who abhors violence, initiates one of the bloodiest revolutions in history ...

Bilder, die die Welt bewegten is a German documentary series, broadcast between 1980 and 1984 on ZDF. The title translates as Images That Changed The World. The series presented film footage of major natural disasters, technological disasters, and accidents. The series was directed and narrated by journalist Peter von Zahn.