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- A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
- Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- After his wife is forced to give up 40 years of her life as payment for an insurance debt, a man desperately searches for a way to get them back.
- An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
- While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
- James and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.
- A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
- After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
- In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
- The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.
- After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
- A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
- The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- Set in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.
- Light-hearted comedy about nuns who are constantly dodging attempts by the mayor to take over their cloister in order to create business opportunities for his party supporters. It is in German only.
- A British telecommunication expert comes to 1950s Berlin to help the Americans spy on the USSR. He meets a cute, mysterious local woman.
- It follows a group of police officers who are sent to Berlin to form a special investigations unit: ZERV. As they dig deeper into the crimes in the East, they uncover that many of them originated in the West.
- The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
- An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
- The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters and Communists by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
- Im dänischen Ribe flüchtet eine junge Frau nachts in Todesangst vor einem Mann in einen Kirchturm - ihr Verfolger ist ihr dicht auf den Fersen. Die lauten Hilfe-Rufe des Opfers erreichen das Polizeipräsidium - und damit auch die junge Polizistin Emma (Zoë Valks). Gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Ida Sörensen (Marlene Morreis) macht sie sich auf den Weg - im Kirchturm kommt es schließlich zu einem tödlichen Schusswechsel, bei dem sowohl Opfer als auch Täter sterben. Emma, die die Schüsse abgefeuert hat, ist sichtlich geschockt, will sich aber nicht helfen lassen, möchte am liebsten alles einfach nur vergessen. Entgegen allen anderen glaubt Ida nicht, dass der Fall damit abgeschlossen ist. Die Tote kommt eigentlich aus Kopenhagen, machte angeblich in Ribe ein Praktikum in der Altenpflege - was wollte sie wirklich dort? Und wo ist das Notebook des Opfers? Es gibt viele Ungereimtheiten. Auch Emma scheint etwas zu verbergen. Nach anfänglichem Zögern ist auch Kollege Magnus Vinter (Nicki von Tempelhoff) davon überzeugt, dass hinter diesem Fall weit mehr steckt.
- How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
- Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous places in the world: Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different culture and way of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Their life and the condition at the post seem to improve as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.
- 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.
- In Marseille, German vacationer Simon helps an unknown person who was caught breaking into a holiday complex. This triggers an ominous pull of events. Among other things, they are targeted by an unscrupulous trafficker ring.
- Before the Berlin Wall fell, Erich Mielke was the most feared man in East Germany. He created the East German "Stasi" and, for over four decades, ruled this most perfidious and effective secret service: 300.000 men, women and children, to control a population of 17 million. Fear was key to the efficiency of the Stasi, and Mielke was the master of fear.
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.