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Caro's tasks as a mobile nurse go beyond wound care and intimate washing. With time pressure and a lack of material on her back, the "Pflegionärin" rushes to bizarre, funny, tragic and exciting missions.

The young farmhand Veit Kolb from Hausberg in Bavaria loses his job at the farmer Kriele, who emigrates to America with his family.

Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten is a long-running German information series, broadcast between 1969 and 2010.

Florentin and Lars guess prices on Amazon. Whoever is closer to the real price gets one point.

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.

Court reporter Carla von Esken, a single mother of two almost grown-up daughters, reports on the circumstantial evidence trial against a young father. He is accused of killing his daughter. Carla is outraged by the smear campaign in a tabloid newspaper, in which reporter Bölke is particularly prominent. He portrays the defendant as a beast.

Prominent filmmakers talk about documentaries that have moved, impressed, or had a lasting influence on them.

Angela Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor, ended the "Merkel era" in 2021 after 16 years and with it a remarkable rise from "Kohl's girl" to "the most powerful woman in the world". Today their legacy is overshadowed by the climate crisis, Russia and the refugee issue. Two and a half years after her departure, the documentary series sheds light on the key years of her career and chancellorship, including Samira El Ouassil, LeFloid, Marina Weisband and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The series focuses on the view of the “Merkel Generation” on the chancellorship of the first woman at the head of Germany.

Tom Dawson is fatally struck in the head by a golf ball hit by Peter Newton. His son, Harry Dawson, a Scotland Yard inspector on leave, does not believe it was an accident. He arranges to meet Peter Newton, but finds him murdered in his car outside his apartment. Chief Inspector Yardley and Inspector Nat Fletcher now suspect Harry Dawson.

12-year old Flori and his mother live in an apartment building in Leipzig. When his grandfather dies and leaves him a farm in Bavaria and a dog named Racko, things start to change pretty quickly.

The series follows the night shift of the hotel crew until dawn, with bedless guests being washed up at concierge Charles' reception. The hotel bar serves as an emotional holding camp for characters, with bartender Rafael's humour bringing joy to even the darkest nights.

Stars, pop culture and the attitude to life between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 are shown in this documentary on the 30th anniversary of the former music channel VIVA, which first shaped the zeitgeist - and was then overrun by it.

Der Sonne entgegen is a German television series.