Die schöne Wilhelmine

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 pers...

Runtime

3h

Director

Jörg Grünler

Cast

Veronica Ferres, Thando Walbaum, Petra Kelling

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Runtime

5h 39m

Director

Olivier Assayas

Cast

Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Waldstätten

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 ...

Runtime

3h 40m

Cast

Massimo Marinoni, Peter Guinness, Ian Bustard

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 ha...

Runtime

3h 35m

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Polan...

Runtime

2h 36m

Director

János Veiczi

Cast

Alfred Müller, Leon Niemczyk, Dietrich Körner