Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.
Albert Einstein
Elsa Einstein
Margot
Helene Dukas
Dr. Rolf Schnittke
Max Planck
Dr. Mayer
Prof. Stark
Tabea Mandel
Dr. Flexner
Jane Huston
Maja Winterle-Einstein
Frank Belasco
Leo Szilard
Edward Teller
26 May 2004
Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration, but by fierce and defiant isolation. And the man at the heart of this empire was Tokugawa Ieyasu, a warlord who ruled with absolute control. This period is explored through myriad voices-- the Shogun, the Samurai, the Geisha, the poet, the peasant and the Westerner who glimpsed into this secret world.
04 Feb 2004
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.
01 Jan 2001
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time - the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order from chaos, built the most cosmopolitan society the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century A.D.
09 Oct 1993
Robin is 16 and has had enough: permanent trouble at school and at home. On the run from his dull everyday life, he joins a group of skinheads. The clique strengthens their sense of belonging by beating up foreign youths. This is how the "apolitical" boy slips into the right-wing scene, and it's not easy to get out of it. When they injure a Turkish girl during a robbery, Robin, of all people, is questioned by the police.
06 Dec 1981
No overview found
01 Jan 2010
Miniseries looking at Barbados through the lives of the island's horse racing community.
06 Nov 1999
No overview found
02 Mar 2008
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
01 Oct 2006
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...
26 Feb 2013
A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.
12 Mar 1965
No overview found
04 Oct 1986
Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.
29 Jan 1989
The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes from a small coastal village on the North Sea (FRG). She is intelligent, determined, but also hungry for adventure, and she fascinates the world of men. She has developed into an accomplished secretary with excellent foreign language skills - predestined for an international career. Her meeting with Colonel Shelvin paves the way for this: Vera is able to take up a position at NATO headquarters in Brussels and, thanks to her achievements, she travels to many countries and meets countless interesting people.
08 Oct 2006
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
20 Dec 2004
Con artist Corinna seizes the opportunity and slips into the role of a baron's widow. She manages to gain access to the chambers of a billionaire in Nice. Once on the Cote D'Azur, she promptly encounters a rival. The swindlers vie for the billionaire, or whoever they think he is. Then the real widow turns up.
20 Nov 2005
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
17 Apr 1965
The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.
21 May 1983
No overview found
03 Dec 1979
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
24 Oct 1990
A thriller in three parts about violence and solidarity. Two young aid workers see something they should not see.