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"Being Michael Schumacher" is a documentary series about the life of Michael Schumacher on ARD Mediathek.

The series provides an insight into the often exciting everyday working life of eleven police officers who belong to the "Wache Hamburg". Interpersonal relationships are not neglected either.

Tegtmeier klärt auf! is a German television series.

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

The KGB has influenced world events on numerous occasions before. Assassinations, coup d’états, theft of nuclear secrets and sexpionage are just standard trademarks for an organisation that still sends shivers down the spines of politicians and military figures the world over. It may have changed its name on various occasions, from Cheka to SPD to OGPU to NKVD to MGB to KGB to an array of different names after the collapse of the Soviet Union to FSB and SVR today, but it will forever be known, internally and externally, as the KGB.

Winning the Tour de France in 1997 made Jan Ullrich a star. But soon after, the downfall of road cycling's biggest talent begins. The five-part documentary series follows the stages of his life and his career.

Sternensommer is a German children's and youth television

Der Forellenhof is a German television series.

“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.

Whether over land, religion, resources, or drug trafficking, conflict characterises our world. Decoding Conflicts explains what is behind them, how people are affected and what we need to know about them.

Wie erziehe ich meine Eltern? is a German television series.

Friends Leslie Parker and Tony Holicek work as employees at New York Airport. Parker has high debts – making it easy for the mafia to put pressure on him. He tells his contact, the beautiful Tammy Venasca, that six million dollars will be stored in the airport cargo hold's vault on a certain weekend. Gangster Daniel Reilly and his crew want to break into the heavily guarded building. They plan the heist meticulously. They know they can't afford to make any mistakes—the mafia bosses don't mess around with losers.

Stefanie Ritter is actually quite happy with her life. When the charming pilot Kai Mertens turns up one day, Stefanie feels that tingling in her stomach again for the first time. For her birthday, he surprises her with a dream vacation in Mexico. When she wakes up the next morning in her apartment after an enchanting evening in Mexico, the dream vacation turns into a nightmare: Kai has disappeared without a trace. Stefanie is arrested on suspicion of murder and ends up in a Mexican women's prison. Rough customs prevail among the inmates. It is only after almost a year in custody that public defender Paul Linke, a lawyer from Saxony who has fallen on hard times, appears and makes it clear to Stefanie that her hopes of an acquittal are illusory. There is only one way to get out of this prison alive: Stefanie must escape.

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.

Kiezgeschichten is a German television series.

France, 1860: In Bougival, a small town near Paris, the widow Lerouge is found stabbed to death. No one knows who the murderer is yet, but investigations reveal that 30 years ago, Madame Lerouge, as a wet nurse, swapped the illegitimate son of Count Commarin for the legitimate heir. This means that Noel Gerdy, a lawyer who grew up in poverty, is the count's legitimate son—and now the prime suspect in the murder.