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  • Lecture Room

    2001

    Lecture Room

    2001

    star 7
  • Bares für Rares

    2013

    Bares für Rares

    2013

    star 7.6
    In the show, selected applicants each present a curiosity, rarity or antique they have brought with them. Once they have received their expertise, they will have the opportunity on site to offer their exhibit to a changing five-person podium for sale and, ideally, to sell it to the highest bidder for „Bares“ ("cash").
  • Galileo

    1998

    Galileo

    1998

    star 4.8
    This daily German magazine show delivers interesting facts on numerous topics centering around technology, life, and bizarre knowledge.
  • Panorama

    1953

    Panorama

    1953

    star 6.3
    Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
  • BBC Proms

    1947

    BBC Proms

    1947

    star 7.7
    The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
  • Austin City Limits

    1975

    Austin City Limits

    1975

    star 6.3
    Now the longest-running music series in American television history, ACL showcases popular music legends and innovators from every genre.
  • Planet Wissen

    2002

    Planet Wissen

    2002

    star 7
  • Chiisana Tabi

    1983

    Chiisana Tabi

    1983

    star 9
  • Horizon

    1964

    Horizon

    1964

    star 7.4
    Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
  • NOVA

    1974

    NOVA

    1974

    star 7
    PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
  • Die Ratgeber

    2019

    Die Ratgeber

    2019

    star 10
  • Mayday

    2003

    Mayday

    2003

    star 8.2
    Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
  • Great Performances

    1971

    Great Performances

    1971

    star 6.1
    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
  • Fuse

    1962

    Fuse

    1962

    star 7.6
    Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
  • The Mark of Beauty

    2006

    The Mark of Beauty

    2006

    Show discusses a variety of everyday art and craft items from Japan. Each episode covers a single item in depth to explain the hidden beauty in the items history and making.
  • Arena

    1975

    Arena

    1975

    star 7.2
    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
  • Australian Story

    1996

    Australian Story

    1996

    star 5.3
    Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.
  • 37 Grad

    1994

    37 Grad

    1994

    star 9
    37° reports on typical life situations in our society from an unusual perspective: the camera accompanies a group or individual people, usually in a particularly exposed social situation. The reportage often outlines a turning point or a decision-making phase in the biography under review.
  • Dateline

    1992

    Dateline

    1992

    star 6.5
    Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine series. It was previously the network's flagship newsmagazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics.
  • World War Two

    2018

    World War Two

    2018

    star 8
    Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.
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