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- Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.
- A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- This anthology series follows the work of police officers in Germany.
- A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.
- Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
- A mother shoots the murderer of her daughter in the courtroom.
- A young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
- Commander McLane and the crew of the fast space cruiser Orion patrol Earth's outposts and colonies in space and defend humanity from the alien 'Frogs'.
- Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.
- Near the end of the 20th century, WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) are retired. However, certain factions plan to use a science space station as a weapon against each other. The astronauts inside will decide the world's fate.
- A rural French town attempts to erect a public urinal.
- The fantastic adventures of a friendly doctor and his friends.
- Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
- Based on the Bela Bartok opera. Bluebeard woos his women and then swiftly disposes of them.
- A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
- With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
- Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.
- With the American Dream set in their minds, two pathetic gangsters, one Luxembourgish, the other German, go through various trials and tribulation in the South of Luxembourg.
- Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.
- How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path.
- The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
- A German news show on the public broadcaster ARD.
- Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
- The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move in 1936 with their father to Prague, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years. The Second world war will soon begin.
- The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.
- Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.
- The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his uncharacteristic programs.
- A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?
- A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
- There is a complete comic story in each episode, with Didi in the main role - as well as other, more brief, comedy sketches, also starring Didi.
- The story takes place in Germany at the beginning of the last century. Charlotte and wealthy baron Edouard, who had loved each other since their youth, could only marry after both became widowed. Edouard invites his childhood friend Captain Otto to manage the reconstruction work of the castle.
- Renada is a feisty, Pipi Longstocking-type girl who lives with her Grandfather in Hamburg and has crazy adventures with her brainier friend Milton.
- 1943, Italy's Salentino peninsula. Tony, an American fighter pilot, raised speaking Italian in New York, parachutes to safety and is hidden at the olive farm of Carmine, a man with three daughters. One is being courted by Pasquale, the son of the area's largest landowner. It is she, Cosima, whom Tony falls for. He gets to know her through the rhythms of the farm and a traditional way of life, expressed in spontaneous song and in pizzicatas (a courtship dance; a dance that enacts a knife fight between men; and, the frenzied tarantata - a woman's dance exorcising passion). As Carmine protects Tony and as Cosima begins to love him, Pasquale does not go gently.
- The Landesschau are TV broadcasts of the SWR, which can be seen on SWR television from Monday to Saturday.
- The German TV-show fools and trolls celebrities captured on camera.
- When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they loose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who does exactly look like herself. When they check for mountain rescue service they suddenly find themselves deeply involved in an local myth about a prophecy which seems to be fulfilling now. The mountains are bearing an old curse.
- This is the story of John Glueckstadt, released from the prison he was named after. He tries to find his place in society again. The townpeople provoke him, stalk him and would like to get rid of him. This world becomes a second prison for him. His desperate attemps to live as others do result in unemployment and misery. Unfortunate circumstances such as the death of his wife make him all the more decide to emigrate with his child to America.
- In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only the poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. The now wealthy Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods - helpless in the world.
- Reinhold Colbus is a conscientious but boring librarian who works in the German state library. He comes into an inheritance and suddenly finds himself the owner of an old whaling ship in Amsterdam harbour, the Walburga VII. When he arrives in Amsterdam to inspect his property the ship turns out be occupied by hippie squatters. Colbus starts to do up the ship, helped by the flower children and über hippie Jan. Colbus and his colourful crew set off on an eventful trip.
- The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.
- The farm where Hatschipuh (a gnome) and his friends live is about to be sold because the owners are going bankrupt. The gnomes need to help the family and rescue the farm. Live action film with animated gnomes.
- The power of the the political left leans in the village of Bagnolo on the cooperatives. About 82% of population of bagnolo is communist. The Mezzadros (share croppers) who don't posses anything, are members and associates of the Milk- and Wine-Cooperative and are very proud of it.
- Famous Entertainer Rudi Carell makes dreams come true for unknown people. Inbetween the suprises young music talents perform famous songs.
- Documenting the tumultuous production of Werner Herzog's film Cobra Verde in Africa, the last of his five collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski.