Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from September 2025 that includes over 20 unique series. Highlighting WDR Fernsehen’s quality programming, Zur Person and Klimbim stand out, premiering in 1963 and 1973. WDR Fernsehen has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1963 and as recent as 2010.
Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.
A German sketch comedy show that prioritises provocative absurdity above all else.
Die Anrheiner is a German television soap opera series, broadcast on WDR-TV since March 21, 1998. The series is set and filmed in Cologne.