"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
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An analysis of the life of German officer and physician Josef Mengele, exploring his youth and studies, his adherence to Nazism, the inhumane experiments conducted at Auschwitz, and the connection between Nazism and the German academic system.
A documentary series about heroines of the II World War. Stories told from the perspective of the characters are full of emotions and tension, they show courage, sacrifice, willpower but also recklessness or pragmatism. Characters of the series are not flawless monuments but regular women with their own problems, who happened to play an important role in the history. The visual style of the project is animadoc. It comprises archival materials, interviews with experts, and sequences of fictionalised scenes: shots stylised as comic frames, where an actor is connected with scenography hand-drawn by comics illustrators.
World War II was marked by its epic battles, which decided the fate of nations and changed the course of history. From Germany's Blitzkrieg attacks on Poland that launched the European campaign to the Allied invasion of Berlin that signaled its violent end, we bring these seminal conflicts to life through never-before-seen colorized combat footage. This six-part series puts you in the center of the action through rarely scene films from the frontline plus personal memoirs and oral histories from both sides of the battle lines.
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Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.
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The mini-series follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
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World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
Follows the World War II exploits of a group of military prisoners turned soldiers, led by the tough as nails Lt. Danko who assigned each squad member a place based on their abilities.
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Who were the Yugoslav Partisans? A docuseries about the founding and evolution of the largest armed resistance in Europe during World War II.
Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one day, it is love at first sight for Judith. The elegant lady of the house Diana, her husband Colonel Cary-Lewis and Loveday's siblings Edward and Athena immediately fall in love with her and treat her like family. But the outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the idyll on Nancherrow overnight. A long, thorny road lies ahead of Judith until she finally finds happiness in a family of her own...
Let's travel to Iran in the final years of World War II. To a story of history, tragedy, love... to mourning Siavash... to Savushun.
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
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13 episodes • 1989
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Charivari | Nov 14, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Chasms | Nov 15, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Gentleman Driver | Nov 16, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Changing of the Guard | Nov 17, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Coming Home | Nov 18, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Conclusions | Nov 19, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Wedding Eve | Jan 1, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Movements | Jan 2, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Bedroom Stories | Jan 3, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Vigilante Police | Jan 4, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Clean-up | Jan 5, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Will of the People | Jan 6, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 13 | First Day of Spring | Jan 7, 1990 | 0.0 |
13 episodes • 1991
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| 1 | Episode 1 | Jan 1, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jan 2, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jan 3, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Jan 4, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Jan 5, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Jan 6, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Jan 7, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | Jan 8, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | Jan 9, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Jan 10, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | Jan 11, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Episode 12 | Jan 12, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Episode 13 | Jan 13, 1991 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1992
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| 1 | Episode 1 | Jan 1, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jan 2, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Oct 1, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Nov 1, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Nov 2, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Nov 3, 1992 | 0.0 |