German series about the Middle Ages

List of the best German TV shows about the Middle Ages, selected by visitors to our site: Reign, Barbarians, The Pillars of the Earth, The Name of the Rose, The Billion Dollar Code, The Worst Witch, You Are Wanted, Big Dating, Beat, Sløborn.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, history
CountryGermany

Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
CountryCanada, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary
Duration01:00

    A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective, history
    CountryItaly, Germany
    Duration00:50

    Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:05

    In 1990s Berlin, an artist and a hacker invented a new way to see the world. Years later, they reunite to sue Google for patent infringement on it.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

    Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:08

    Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why he's been targeted, as even his family and friends begin to doubt his innocence.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    Sam (Ole Fischer) has developed an algorithm to find his perfect partner. He encounters Lina (Olga von Luckwald) - and changes his personality more and more to fit his perfect match.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    Robert Schlag, nicknamed "Beat", is a Berlin club promoter who lives for the excesses of sex, drugs and the city nightlife. His connections to the underworld lead the police to use Beat to try and infiltrate a notorious organ smuggling ring.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryGermany, Denmark, Poland

    A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain
    Duration01:00

    Within the walls of an interrogation room and with time running out, London investigators go after three suspects, each accused of a grievous crime.

    Markimdb: 9.3
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA, Germany, France

    Millions of years ago, incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven extraordinary continents. This documentary series reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:51

    A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, military
    CountryFrance, Canada, Germany

    Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, history
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany
    Duration00:54

    Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, Austria
    Duration00:42

    When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany

    A mysterious classmate leads four idealistic teens in a revolt against a rising tide of nationalistic fervor, but their movement takes a dark turn.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany

    A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredetective
    CountryGermany

    Mira is 17 and a loner. When she is invited by an unknown number to download the app "Wishlist", at first she believes that it is just spam. But Wishlist offers her to satisfy every wish - for a trade-off...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryGermany, Canada, Italy

    Plunged into a fantastic fairy tale turned real, Mia must find the strength within herself to save a race of unicorns - and an entire world.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany

    Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecrime
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:45

    In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryAustria, Germany

    A policeman gets into a spiral of events, in which assault, extortion and murder are proven means.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryAustria, Germany
    Duration00:46

    Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious interior minister. The organized crime is in trouble. The child murderer must be found so that all other dirty jobs can go on.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryGermany

    1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal threatening the very existence of the Bauhaus; the school of art that would go on to shape the 20th century like no other…

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    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:30

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    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryGermany, Austria
    Duration03:04

    The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. This is a TV series starring William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, and Charlie Cox.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, family, detective
    CountryAustralia, Germany

    When ordinary teenager Kyra touches a mysterious book, she is transformed into a Tri-ling-–part-human, part-fairy and part-elf. In addition to acquiring amazing magical powers, Kyra discovers a secret world of magic all around her.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany

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    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, adventure, cartoon
    CountryGermany, Australia, India

    The true story of the classic Arabian Nights tales. We follow Sherazade, the real hero of the famous stories, on her quest to find the Tree of Life and save the Prince of the Golden City, who has been turned into a blue-haired monster.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, crime
    CountryCanada, France, USA, Germany
    Duration00:43

    Transporter: The Series is an English-language French-Canadian action-adventure television series, spun off from the Transporter film series created by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Canadian boutique entertainment company QVF Inc. in association with broadcast partners M6, RTL, The Movie Network, Movie Central and HBO/Cinemax. The series follows the events and concept of the film trilogy, continuing adventures of Frank Martin, a professional freelance courier driver for hire who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price, and lives by three "unbreakable" rules, which he constantly breaks. Chris Vance takes over the role of Frank from Jason Statham and is joined by Andrea Osvárt, who plays the leading female role in the series, starring as a former CIA agent and love interest for Frank, who organizes his missions, and François Berléand, the only returning actor from the film series, who reprises his role as Inspector Tarconi. Twelve episodes were ordered for 2012 with an overall budget of $40,000,000, or €30.000.000. The show premiered that year on October 11 in Germany on RTL, and on December 6 in France on M6. The Canadian premiere was on January 4, 2013 on HBO Canada and Super Écran 1. The broadcast started in India on 25th January 2013 on Sony PIX channel.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, France, USA, Germany
    Duration00:30

    Inspired by the professional experiences of crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert who with his partner, Marwan Mery, are among the top negotiators in the world. Together, they travel around the globe to help multinational corporations and governmental agencies with complex negotiations and conflict resolution.

    Markimdb: 9
    Genredrama, adventure, documentary, biography
    CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom, USA, Spain, Germany, Greece, Canada
    Duration01:00

    David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Canada, USA
    Duration03:00

    Ben Hur is a TV miniseries that first aired in 2010. Based on Lew Wallace's1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the series was produced by Alchemy Television Group in association with Drimtim Entertainment and Muse Entertainment in Montreal. It aired on Canada's CBC network on April 4, 2010, and aired later in 2010 on ABC in the United States. Ben-Hur was directed by Steve Shill, and stars Kristin Kreuk, Ray Winstone, Art Malik, Hugh Bonneville and Joseph Morgan as Judah Ben-Hur. The film was written by Alan Sharp.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Czech Republic, Italy

    The series follows six teenagers who fight for their dream of happiness and freedom, leaving behind all the problems with parents, teachers and others. Christiane, Stella, Babsi, Benno, Axel and Michi throw themselves into the heady nights of Berlin, without limits or rules, and celebrate life, love and temptation - until they have to realize that this rush will not only destroy their friendship, but can drive them into the abyss.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecrime
    CountryGermany

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    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryGermany, Romania

    Following a cyber attack on a German bank, an investigator teams with local authorities and an elite hacker to track the suspects.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryGermany

    Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryGermany

    Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryAustria, Germany

    Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark
    Duration01:30

    Based on Stieg Larsson's literary phenomenon and featuring and Award winning* breakthrough performance by Noomi Rapace, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist.A past full of secrets that a mysterious underground Government group would kill to keep hidden.The Millennium TV miniseries is a compilation of the three Swedish film adaptations, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest with extended scenes, adding more depth in both the stories and the characters. It was divided into 6 episodes total, with each episode of the series about 93 minutes long, making the television series about 119 minutes longer than the movies.* Noomie Rapace, Best Actress, Empire Awards 2011

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Austria

    The legendary hotel, still the epitome of the Viennese way of life, becomes the setting for a multifaceted social drama in the historical multi-part series "Das Sacher. In the best company". In closely interwoven strands that create a modern genre mix of melodrama and custom paintings, crime and thriller elements, a chronicle of the splendor and decline of old Austria is told along the moving lines of life of the protagonists. While the butcher's daughter Anna Sacher made the hotel the most important meeting point of the kuk elite around 1900, a complicated ménage à quatre unfolds between her guests, a couple of publishers from Berlin and an Austro-Hungarian noble family. At the same time, a dark secret emerges in the catacombs of the nearby opera, and with the upheavals of the new century, the harbingers of a war appear that will change Europe forever.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:11

    Berlin, summer of 1941, during the World War II. Five young Germans promise to meet again as soon the war ends… in Christmas: brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm will go to the Russian front. Charlotte will serve as a nurse in a campaign hospital. Greta dreams of becoming a singer. Viktor, her Jewish boyfriend, works as a tailor with her father. But soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".

    Markimdb: 9.5
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, China, USA
    Duration01:17

    David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, United Kingdom

    During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of “Rikskrim,” a Swedish national police force.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany

    The further life of the protagonist Caterina Schöllack and her three daughters will be traced, who fight in the restrictive period of the 1950s for emancipation and the realization of their own dreams. Monika, Helga and Eva have grown up and each seeks their way to find their way in the rigid society of the late 1950s. Monika and Freddy have a career in show business, and mother Caterina acts as a manager. Meanwhile, Helga works hard to be the perfect housewife and mother for Monika's daughter Dorli. Eva, however, quarrels with her life as a professor's wife.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    Unemployed Arthur Ahnepol wants his obnoxious wife to die to claim the life insurance and start a new life with his mistress, which sets off a series of disastrous events.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryGermany

    Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany

    Acclaimed series based on the true story of an unprecedented hostage crisis which shocked Germany in the summer of 1988.




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