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Mexico in the 1870s. The French expeditionary force lands in Mexico. Emperor Napoleon III of France and local conservatives establish a monarchy in the country and decide to place their protégé, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, on the Mexican throne. In the ensuing war of national liberation, the freedom-loving Indians, the Maztecs, led by their chief Bear's Eye, side with the legitimate deposed president of Mexico, Benito Juárez.
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove that the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. With his friend, French explorer and natural scientist Martial de Sassenage, Thomas Waghorn leaves London in October 1829 with the aim of reaching Bombay in India in three months. The owner of a shipping line fears for his company's future should the two adventurers succeed, so he sends his agents to delay them along their way.
Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck is a German television series.
Alarm in den Bergen was a German thriller television series which was broadcast on ZDF in 1965. The 13-part series is set in the Bavarian Alps, in the border area around Garmisch.
Die Feuerengel is a German drama television series.
Top agent Paul Flemming sets out in the Middle East to search for his missing daughter and uncovers dirty arms deals by the secret service...
A funny story about the group of children from Munich who are trying to build a Luna-park.
Bible scholar Bachmann is murdered in front of his daughter Johanna. Together with his assistant Simon, a French religious scholar, the young policewoman sets out to find her father's murderer. In the process, they stumble upon the trail of the mysterious Bible code, which is said to be able to prophesy the future of mankind. Pursued by the powerful Cardinal Rhades, Johanna and Simon become involved in a murder plot against the Pope in the Vatican. But not only his life is in danger - the existence of mankind is at stake. In order to prevent the cardinal's plans, it becomes all the more urgent to actually find the key to the Bible code. In a monastery, they discover the last important clue that leads them to the Israeli desert. There, a merciless race ensues for one of the last great secrets of Christianity...
On the run from police in America, Antonio Morena, a former World War II aviator and black-marketeer, finds himself in South America working for the all-powerful United Fruit Company, known to the natives as "the Green Monster".
Germany's first comedy escape room show. Comedians versus creators. In each episode, one duo from each team must prove themselves in identically designed escape rooms. The team with the best overall time wins the season.
The School is boring. That's not entirely true, as three Schools show. Schönfeld High School, Berlin School of Arts and the Hermann Gmeiner School. Every School experiences different Adventures. Adventure? Yes, this time the School will be different.
Brian brings new contestants into the game – and the challenges become even tougher, more absurd, and more unpredictable. Who will go the distance? Who will lose all inhibitions? In every episode, big personalities, wild strategies, and sheer madness collide – and the tasks might take the contestants all across Germany or even beyond. Anything can happen! Whether it’s strategy, luck, or pure determination – in the end, only one question matters: Who wins?
Confused by tales of knights and their glorious deeds, Don Alonso, as Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out fearlessly as a knight-errant with his friend and faithful squire Sancho Panza to accomplish great things. With rickety armor and a barber's basin for a helmet, he fights windmills, mistakes washerwomen for princesses, and monks for evil sorcerers. While Don Quixote dedicates all his deeds and the entire glory of his lady love, the most beautiful maiden Dulcinea, he contributes to the amusement of all involved.
Hired gun and loudmouth Mowld repeatedly drags Phungus, an anxious little alien, from his cushy life as bartender into countless outlandish adventures. Accompanied by ALIS, their hacked robot, they travel in a decrepit spaceship with an experimental Framistan Drive.
In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ignites, their lives intertwine, revealing hidden fears and unbreakable bonds amid the flames.
Látal's nine-part puppet series completes Trnka's thirty-year-old work on Švejk. He thus completed the adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's most famous literary work, a tragicomic satire about the wartime adventures of the eccentric Josef Švejk, in a puppet version based on Lada's artistic style.
An unknown plague turns Berlin's population into ravenous zombies. As the city transforms, a string of interwoven horror stories unfold in Germany.
A story of the famous British train robbery from the 1960s, told from the view of the robbers.
Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.
A Catholic game-show series for third-grade children.
M.E.T.R.O. – Ein Team auf Leben und Tod is a German television series.
Die schwarzen Brüder is the best-known story of German writer Lisa Tetzner and one of the most widely read children's books in the world.
America at the end of the 19th century: news spreads like wildfire that gold has been found in the Klondike. Half of America is in an uproar. Among the adventurers is the young lawyer Elam Harnish from San Francisco. Over the next few months, he experiences unique adventures with the hard search for gold, the merciless nature and the shrewd stock market sharks of the big city...
Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.
A miniseries about a scientific project trying to develop and exploit efficient solar power. The group members have the normal family and funding problems to concern them. But more sinisterly, they have to contend with energy companies who need them to fail and are too happy to help them along their way, mysterious business concerns who want to pump money into the project but for unknown or dubious reasons, and, worst, terrorists and murder attempts.
Sternensommer is a German children's and youth television
“Highspeed – The Leather Cops” is a team of four young police officers who make up a special unit of the North Rhine-Westphalia police force. This fast-moving, interdepartmental, and highly trained unit usually operates in plain clothes. Through action-packed operations, the officers bring an end to hostage situations, extortion cases, and kidnappings.
Susanne, a meteorologist in Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
JETS – Leben am Limit is a German television series.
Spuk am Tor der Zeit is the conclusion of the trilogy, the mummy of Roggelin. The children's series from the "Spooky" series by Günter Meyer is thus the continuation of Ghost in the realm of shadows.
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold...
In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories.