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An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

SOKO Wismar is a German crime series.

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.

Vivian Bernaise is the star of the drag queen scene in St Pauli in Hamburg. But when she witnesses a mafia reckoning, she decides to go into hiding. Vivian becomes Volker and he rents a room in rural Schleswig-Holstein in the home of young single mother and teacher Katja. Her little son, ten-year-old Lukas likes having a father figure in the house again. Katja turns out to be organizing a school musical and Volker wants to help her.

After his father dies in South Africa, preteen David Stapleton is dragged to his mother's native Wales, where they inherited a rundown cottage she plans to sell to buy a London antiques shop. Meanwhile they move in there, facing the renovation requirements she can't afford, and flirtation on more starts with notable neighbors, mainly Michael Lloyd Glynn, MP, who champions the regional nature reserve; and its greatest threat, opportunistic gold miner Sam Morgan, who just returned from South America. David is presented to helpful neighbor James Belbroughton's silver-spoon son Henry, but they are far from ideal playmates. Nothing goes right--how can everything work out right?

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.

A girl disappears on her way to school. The prime suspect is Hans Kortman a former teacher, who spent the last 15 years in prison for the murder of his 15 year old student Melanie Bauer. But Kortman is declaring his innocence.

A talk show with Reinhold Beckmann as host.

Hamburg, 1945: Orphaned children from the Bergen-Belsen camp find temporary accommodation in the upscale Elbe suburb of Blankenese. After the Nazi terror, they are now waiting to leave for Palestine. Jewish carers (Alice Dwyer, Harald Schrott and others) want to give hope to the traumatized orphans. But the departure was delayed, and many Germans still met the Jews with undisguised hatred.

Das Deutschlandspiel is a 2-part German TV movie produced 2000. It tells the story of German reunification. In addition to scenes the protagonists of the unification were interviewed. The game scenes are supported by original documents.

Felix Weingarten's parents separate amicably - like they don't forget to emphasize - and for the reason of fairness they decide to share just also their common only son: One week at the mother, one week at the father. For his parents it's a judgment of Solomon, for Felix it means the total disorientation. While his family halves, his material existence doubles. He lives in a very confuse-organized everyday life with two toy rooms, two beds, two tooth-brushes - but Felix lives nevertheless in hope, that the quarrel of all, which releases between his parents "week for week" in the everyday life, the family can reunite.

They are actually a mother-daughter team that could hardly be more harmonious: the respected Hamburg pediatrician Claudia Kayser and her almost 17-year-old daughter Carolin. Since the tragic death of her beloved father, the two have become even closer - at that time the girl helped her grieving mother to overcome a difficult emotional depression. In the meantime, Claudia has her life under control again and has found a new life partner in the sympathetic family lawyer Thomas. Meanwhile, Carolin is toying with the idea of following in her mum's professional footsteps, so she does an internship at her mum's hospital. The shock is all the greater when the teenager finds out on her 17th birthday that she was adopted as a baby. Disappointed and deeply hurt, she blames her mother for never telling her the truth over the years. She now wants to find out on her own who her birth parents are. With the help of the youth welfare office, she finds what she is looking for: her mother's name is Chantal, she is in her mid-30s, chronically broke, but always in a good mood. She leads an easy-going life without family obligations and keeps her head above water as a beautician in a small hairdressing salon in Hamburg's Kiez. Carolin is fascinated and impressed by Chantal's carefree manner, as she is so completely different from Claudia, who is buttoned up in a Hanseatic way and always keeps her feelings under wraps. The attempt to get to know each other better at a mother-daughter dinner ends in a scandal due to Claudia's jealous taunts. Nevertheless - or precisely because of this - the relationship between Carolin and her biological mother is becoming ever more intimate. Finally, after a heated argument, the girl leaves her parents' house and moves in with Chantal in her tiny neighborhood apartment. However, it doesn't take long for Chantal to admit that she's still not up to the responsibilities of being a mother. Hurt and once again deeply disappointed, Carolin feels abandoned by her two mothers and runs away.

Charming, widowed Berlin 'senator' (city state minister) Hans-Werner 'H.W.' Glehdorn finds raising orphaned teens Michael and Jennifer and little Toby hard to combine with his mandate, which includes attributing major public works and other contracts. The workaholic is inclined to let sister in law Claudia Weigoldt assume a maternal role, but the kids push their aunt away. As their late mother's testament grants them a home boat on river Müritz, the trio sneaks off the next holiday period to inspect their heirloom retreat, forcing H.W. to dodge work and follow. Long before him arrived runway socialite bride Isabell, daughter of leading Berlin contractor Harry Kolditz whom the city is awarding a major contract, who seeks quiet under a false name. Hans-Werner duly mistrusts her intrusion, but as he must return to Berlin, the kids insist he hires Isabell to mind them aboard, as none of the Glehdorns has a clue how to handle it, only she. Visiting for a boat trip, Hans-Werner sort of warms to her, but a paparazzo secretly photographs him cavorting with Isabell, exposing him to corruption rumors compromising his career, which proves no accident.

Thomas Wunsche, a well-to-do building contractor in his prime, finds himself in a life crisis. At fifty-four, he is neither young nor old, but he worries about what else awaits him in the 30 or 40 years that he may still have ahead of him.

A dramatized reconstruction of events in restless Afgna province Kunduz, in 2009, and the ensuing trial of the German NATO contingent commander, colonel Klein. After the tragic loss of private Sergej Motz, son of a Russian Afganistan veteran, and two patrol mates in an ambush, tension culminates and rules of engagement are sharpened, almost discretionary. The governor, who loses a brother to the Taliban, complains the Germans act cowardly. A relatively trustworthy informer gives the whereabouts of two fuel tankers stolen by the Taliban and the presence there of the local insurgents leaders. By the time bombing from the air is authorized, the rebels have left and only citizens, coming to collect fuel leaking from the river-stuck trucks, are hit.

Raised as an orphan by his uncle Walter, Leon has banished everything that reminds him of childhood from his life - until he meets Esther, who is raising thirteen children.

It could have been so beautiful: after a long search, the aspiring architect Sophie has finally found a dreamlike apartment in an old building - just the thing to move in with her boyfriend Martin. On the spur of the moment, she signs the lease, but when she brings Martin the good news, the married head doctor does not react very euphorically: Although his marriage has long been over, he does not yet feel ready to leave his wife and daughter. While the disappointed Sophie is reluctant to move into her dream apartment on her own for the time being, her neighbor there, the elderly Hannah, is doing everything she can to remain to herself. With temperament and imperious assertiveness, she has so far managed to stand firmly on her own two feet. But in view of her increasing frailty, the grumpy old lady reluctantly takes part in a pilot project that, thanks to state-of-the-art technology, enables independent living within your own four walls. And lo and behold: During an accompanying computer course, she met the pensioner Friedrich Seliger, who met her sharp-nosed tongues with charming serenity. Even in fleeting encounters with Sophie, Hannah is brittle and rejecting. Until one day, thanks to her newly acquired computer skills, she gets access to the e-mail account of her young neighbor. The path to Sophie's mailbox is not entirely correct, but Hannah's curiosity trumps her guilty conscience. Reading Martin's emails, she realizes very quickly that he belongs to the kind of man who promises everything, but does not follow suit: he will never leave his wife. Of course, Hannah cannot reveal what she knows about the young woman's private life and lovesickness. That's why she uses a clever trick to show Sophie that by waiting for her supposed dream man, she is above all missing out on her own life.