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Kiezgeschichten is a German television series.

Eigener Herd ist Goldes wert is a German television series.

War veteran Franz Tunda tells his life story.

Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck is a German television series.

Lukas und Sohn is a German television series.

Wilhelmine Enke, the daughter of a trumpeter, becomes the mistress of Crown Prince Frederick William II, the successor to Frederick the Great. The fact that the beautiful Wilhelmine is of common birth makes the love between her and the portly Frederick William a problem. So Frederick William marries her off to a valet and keeps her close to him. Later, he elevates her to the nobility and makes her Countess Lichtenau. After his death, she is put on trial for high treason, but the case is unsuccessful. She spends her twilight years in a small cottage near Berlin.

Familie Meier is a German television series.

30-year-old Gregor is traveling with his ten-year-old daughter to his childhood town, where he meets old friends.

Matt in 13 Zügen is a German television series.

Student unrest in 1967/68: a spirit of optimism at universities. This six-part series aims to illustrate this turning point in the attitude towards life and in the consciousness of our society. Ali Jankowski and his fellow student Kajott study in a small town, not in Berlin, where things are particularly turbulent. But even here, Ali feels that he cannot concentrate solely on his studies.

Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.

The series shows the daily life of a Turkish family in Germany and focuses on their problems which arise in part from an inadequate command of German language and its relation to Turkish and German neighbors. The Korkmaz family consists of a mother Pembe, mistress of the house, father Dursun, daughter Hatim, the problem child Cengiz, and the youngest daughter Sanem.

16-year-old Hans Kolekta is unemployed and unable to find an apprenticeship. He shares this fate with many other young people in the Ruhr region.

A lighthearted series about an unlikely pair.

ZDF's traditional annual review, divided into twelve blocks of months introduced by seasonal trailers. In addition to the most important images and events of the year, curiosities are also presented. The contributions are commented on by a journalist, in the early years by Karlheinz Rudolph.

In the fall of 1956, 21-year-old Herbert Broschat boards an immigrant ship in Bremerhaven bound for Toronto. He wants to leave Germany—this devastated and torn-apart country—and head for an unspoiled land where “freedom is still to be found.” He befriends Erich Domski, a coal miner from Wattenscheid in the Ruhr region. But even in the Canadian wilderness, the two friends are haunted by their German past.

History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party.

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

A story about life and everyday problems of a few families from East Germany.