The crew of Starship Hummingbird are doing everything they can to make contact with the unidentified flying object. Will they be successful?

Now things are getting serious: The crew is getting ready to launch, and the two young pilots are eager to go along for the ride. Will they be able to persuade their fathers to let them?

The new recruits of the Milky Way security force arrive for training. Pierrette is worried about Fat Nose's threatening behavior. Meanwhile, the UFO enters the ship's observation space. This calls for immediate action!

The representatives of the confederation, chaired by the President, are now to vote on how to deal with the unknown flying object. There is no consensus at all!

An unknown flying object appears on the radar. Pierre, Pierrette, and Maestro discuss where it might come from and whether it might be hostile.

The age of Homo erectus has dawned! What abilities did he have and in what ways did he resemble modern humans? To find out, watch this video, which ends with a quotation from one of Germany's greatest poets, Friedrich Schiller.

The popular Swedish children's books centered on oddball Pettersson and his smart tomcat Findus have been turned into a live-action film for the first time. Here, Frankfurt-based SFX company Pixomondo explains how they brought Findus to life.

Every third euro of the EU budget goes to agriculture; but unfortunately, the system ends up favoring large farms employing inhumane practices over more sustainable and ethical agricultural models. Here, NDR’s satirical program “extra 3” lays it all out as a retro-style commercial for board games. Let’s play!

“Rosetta,” a space probe launched by the European Space Agency in 2004, took over 12 years to reach her destination: a faraway comet hurtling through space. This animated short retells her epic journey in the form of a fairy tale.

Bees are rapidly dying off – a major environmental problem – and there are numerous causes. The weekly political satire show extra 3, which is produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Northern German Broadcasting), investigates colony collapse by sassily redubbing an old episode of Maya the Honey Bee, a 1970s Japanese TV series based on a German book.

NICHTLUSTIG is a cartoon by Joscha Sauer known for its crass and irreverent humor. In Part 3, an unexpected power outage leads to all kinds of confusion in the various households.

In Part 2 of Joscha Sauer’s irreverent animated short, Poodle is annoyed when an unexpected visitor shows up just as he and Death are about to have breakfast, the Lemming dad chatters away with an unusually quiet homeowner, and the scientists hatch a plan to recover their toilet.

With the help of crowdfunding, German cartoonist Joscha Sauer produced NICHTLUSTIG (NOTFUNNY), an animated series starring his distinctive zany characters. NICHTLUSTIG—which centers on the Lemming Family—examines everyday and extraordinary situations with sarcasm, irony, and cynicism.

This satirical clip exposes the EU's bias towards large agricultural corporations at the expense of small-scale farmers.

Caruso has an idea: Maybe singing will help against the hiccups. The three friends are happy to give it a try.