Twenty-four-year-old country bumpkin Aiko is a new teacher who has arrived at a new town and a new primary school. When nervous she blurts out her local dialect. This seals her nickname and reputation. Nonetheless, she is determined and strives to do her best for her students. She is an inspiration soon.
Jana Frank has everything under control professionally. As an organizer of flight attendant schedules, she tells her employees where to go. Family life is more difficult. Her daughter Marie is in the middle of puberty and hangs around at night with her grandpa Charly, who wants to beautify the city with plants and flowers in his old age. As a result, Jana is regularly woken up by the police to pick up her father from the station. When Charly decides to move to the country and buys a house, Jana meets the former landlord Thomas and falls head over heels in love.
Airbnb has become a useful tool for millions, but some are not so enamoured with it. This documentary not only hears from those who have had nightmare experiences but also looks at the site's wider impact on rental markets and communities.
In the 1980s, the Italian Salvatore ends up in a small village in the Alps. Salvatore tells the villagers that he is going on vacation for two weeks. During this time, he befriends the widow Frieda, who is still mourning her husband, who never returned from the war. Salvatore also comforts 40-year-old Romy, as her husband is addicted to alcohol and is in a wheelchair. He even enters into a relationship with Erna. The nurse is forced to live with her father Stockinger, who takes good care of her son but has become embittered himself. What Erna doesn't realize is that Salvatore has a dark secret: he knows that the murderer of his entire family has settled in the small village and is seeking revenge...
The ladies' man Edgar dates stewardesses and frequent flyers. The system behind it: While one is away, there is plenty of time for flings with the others. Edgar doesn't want to commit to one woman until he meets his childhood sweetheart Hannah again. But frequent flyer Hannah has also perfected the system for herself in matters of love and meets up with several admirers.
Video version of the dramatic dystopian performance staged by Alexander Sokurov in Vicenza, on the stage of the world's oldest theater Teatro Olimpico. The plot is based on a free interpretation of the works of I. A. Brodsky, which tells about two characters doomed to life imprisonment.
Sonja and her fiancé Thomas are about to get married. Their young happiness is shaken when Sonja is sexually assaulted by her childhood sweetheart Adrian after a birthday party.
Italian jeweller Matteo Belmonte and his wife Christine are robbed for the third time in the space of a few months. With Christine in danger, Matteo fires two shots. The robber Rufin dies at the feet of Romy, the couple's daughter. Self-defense or not, Matteo has to learn how to survive after killing a man in front of his traumatised family.
Half of Americans believe they haven't been told the whole story about 9/11. We've all heard the conspiracy theories, but why do they continue to grip some people so tightly? In this thought-provoking exploration of one of America's greatest tragedies, victims' families, a senior politician, and intelligence agency insiders discuss their belief that there's much more to this story than we know.
Teacher Antonia is taking her spanish class to Mallorca. Once on the island, nothing is going according to plan and the trip is about to turn into a mess. When one of the students asks her father Gregor for help, who is working on the island as a partysinger, the trip is starting to get interesting. Especially for Antonia who starts to grow an interest in Gregor...
Six years after saying "I do," Olive and Clay call it quits. Although they split amicably, both want custody of their beloved dog Wesley and they end up in court. With everything at stake, can man's best friend find a way to reunite the couple?
In honour of the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, National Geographic Channel is looking back at the very best reporting we have done since this world-changing tragedy first happened using extended excerpts from past specials that relate directly to events leading up to and following the attacks on New York City and Washington DC.
Chef Dave Oberlin's career is in shambles when his altercation with a famous food critic goes viral. After being blacklisted by the elite restaurants, Dave is forced to take a teaching position at his friend's culinary arts school. When cardiologist Nina Kirby is up for a promotion at the local hospital, the Head of Cardiology informs her if she gets Dave on board to teach the Healthy Living seminars she would be a shoo-in for the position. The only problem is Nina can't cook and she doesn't want to learn. With a little coaxing from her best friend Olivia, Nina agrees to take Dave's class. When Nina presents Dave with the Healthy Living seminars he's disinterested in working with her due to her lack of class participation. In her effort to persuade him to get on board, Nina and Dave come across some unexpected common ground.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.