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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.
- For the engineer Oliver Berger, it seems that both professionally and privately, everything is running as desired. His salary is good and his boss thinks highly of him. Thoughts that his marriage could suffer from the profession never seemed possible. He is more than stunned when his wife Lena is leaving him. Suddenly, Berger becomes a single father and tries to find a job allowing him to parenting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vanished. Is living in freedom. Because the state is protecting him, keeping him safe. He in turn has supplied information concerning other terrorists. Erika Welves considers this blatant injustice. But now, finally, there is a chance at revenge...
- 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.
- A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.
- Archaeologist Jana has accepted a permanent job in her hometown on an island.
- A German couple travels, shortly after reunification of East Germany, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown woman.
- 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.