In his films, DIRK VAN DEN BERG narrates of the "adventure of the real". Dirk is a director, writer and producer with wide international experience. After graduating in Rome, Italy (with Andrea Camilleri) and many years working in cinema and fictional films, Dirk shifted his focus to documentaries, specifically political investigations and current affairs with strong relations to historical events.

With his production company OUTREMER in 2017 he produced the investigative documentary THE SIEGE OF MECCA, which exposes the battle for Islam's holiest site that led to the birth of religiously motivated terrorism.

In 2019, with BIG BANG OF THE PRESENT, he revealed why the year 1979 became the beginning of our modern era.

With DOOMSDAY CLOCK In 2023 he focused on the three greatest dangers to mankind according to the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", the network of scientists founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer.

With his latest film produced in 2025. iSILENT WAR / IM SCHATTEN DER BOMBE, Dirk debunked 80 years of narratives about atomic bombs and nuclear testing victims all over the world, and why the Cold War and nuclear deterrence are resurfacing again in our present time.