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Digital Empire

Internet, apps, smartphones and the digital world have long been part of everyday life. For many people, the new possibilities trigger fears about the future that are well known from dystopian films: powerful tech companies, world domination by intelligent machines, the end of self-thinking humanity. The documentary series shows what happens when we surf, click, swipe, order and follows the digital economy behind the scenes. Who are the winners and losers of digitization and who makes the decisions about our future?

Sag’s mir

Wendehammer

Die Spur

Don’t Stop the Music

Köstliches Sizilien

37°Leben

Der Überfall

Normaloland

Algiers Confidential

When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.

L'aviation, toute une histoire

Muttertag

The body of old Theodor Reifenrath is found in Mammolshain in the Taunus. Accident or Murder? Because the safe is open and empty, inspectors Pia Sander and Oliver von Bodenstein start investigations. In the dog kennel in front of the house, they make a horrifying discovery. Alongside to a nearly starved dog, she finds human bones in the ground. Three women's bodies are recovered by the forensic experts. But who are the murdered women? The dead man and his deceased wife Rita had used the large house by the lake as a kind of children's home and had raised many foster children here over the years. However, the two were not loving foster parents. Rita has been missing for many years. Probably suicide, but her body was never found. The investigators are concentrating on the foster children, who are now all grown up and in the middle of life. The pattern of killings is striking: Apparently the perpetrator always kills on Mother's Day. And that day is near.

SOKO Linz

Die Geschichte des street dance

The Palace

Set in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.

Geheimnisse des BND

Horst Lichters Traumrouten

Mord in der Familie - Der Zauberwürfel

Thomas Becker (Matthias Koeberlin), son of a powerful building contractor (Heiner Lauterbach), is shot on New Year's Day. Commissioner Barbara Falck (Sabine Winterfeldt) and colleague Christian Krämer (Wolf Danny Homann) start the investigation and suspect a connection with the collapse of the "cube", in which a young cleaner was killed. Was the murder of Thomas an act of revenge against the Becker and Sons company?

Europe's Forgotten Dictatorships

The history of humankind is filled with power-hungry dictators. Come with us on a journey to the past as we re-visit Europe's forgotten dictatorships.

Westwall

When Julia, a young trainee police officer, meets the secretive stranger Nick, she finds herself falling for him almost instantly. But after their first night together, she is shocked to see that Nick has a huge swastika tattoo on his back. Despite all the advice to forget the guy immediately, she decides to investigate the right-wing extremist scene for herself. She follows a trail deep into the forests of the Eifel to the abandoned bunkers of Hitler’s Siegfried Line. In this old World War II defense facility, the young police officer finds the hideout of a terrorist with whom she has more in common than she ever could have imagined.