- Pina, director, Wim Wenders
- Der Räuber, The robber, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion ; Peter Heilrath Filmproduktion ; ZDF ; ORF ; written by Benjamin Heisenberg, Martin Prinz ; directed by Benjamin Heisenberg
- The Berlin airlift, a ZDF production in association with ZDF Enterprises ; written and directed by Peter Adler, Alexander Berkel, and Stefan Mausbach
- Amazon warrior women, a production of Story House Productions for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with National Geographic Channels International and ZDF ; produced and directed by Jens Afflerbach and Carsten Oblaender ; written by Carsten Oblaender ; co-writer, Stephen Zorn ; co-producer, Antje Boehmert ; executive producer (Story House Productions), Andreas Gutzeit ; executive producer, Beth Hoppe
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, produced and directed by Thomas Grimm ; co-production, DR-ZDF-RM Arts ; in association with ORF
- Planet Earth II, a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production ; co-produced with BBC America, ZDF, Tencent and France Televisions ; executive producer, Michael Gunton ; series producer, Tom Hugh-Jones ; producers, Justin Anderson, Ed Charles, Fredi Devas, Chadden Hunter, Emma Napper, Elizabeth White
- The wonderful, horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl, Omega Film, Nomad Films present ; written and directed by Ray Müller ; Channel Four ; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Dawn of the ocean, produced by Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion GmbH for ZDF and National Geographic Channel ; written by Claudia Ruby, Stefan Schneider ; directed by Stefan Schneider ; executive produced by Ewe Kersken, Ruth Omphalius
- Art safari, BBC ; directed by Ben Lewis ; Bergmann Pictures for BBC ; TV2 Danmark, 2DF in association with YLE 1 and NPS
- Ballooning, a Millimages, Pearson Broadband and Schlessinger Media coproduction in association with France 5, ZDF, TVO, TFO ; producer, Emmanuel Franck ; director, Diego Zamora ; outline and script by Alastair Swinnerton
- The inaugural concert, from the Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, produced and directed by Thomas Grimm ; Danmarks Radio/ZDF/RM Arts
- Wolfblood, a BBC & ZDFE & ZDF co-production ; created by Debbie Moon, Season 3
- The counterfeiters, Die Fälscher, a Sony Pictures Classics release, a production of Aichholzer Filmproduktion and Magnolia Filmproduktion in association with Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures/Babelsberg Film and ZDF ; producers, Josef Aichholzer, Nina Bohlmann, Babette Schröder ; written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
- A concert for New York, in remembrance and renewal : the tenth anniversary of 9/11, directed by Michael Beyer ; produced by Paul Smaczny ; a production of ACCENTUS Music and the New York Philharmonic ; in co-production with ZDF
- Angry harvest, Bittere Ernte, eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion der CCC Filmkunst, Berlin mit Admiral-Film, München in zusammenarbeit mit dem ZDF ; drehbuch von Paul Hengge und Agnieszka Holland ; produziert von Artur Brauner ; regie, Agnieszka Holland
- Bron, The bridge = Broen, en Filmlance International, Nimbus Film Produktion ; i samproduktion med Sveriges Television, DR, ZSF German Television Network, ZDF Enterprises GmBh, Film i Skåne, NRK, Lumiere Group ; huvudförfattare, Hans Rosenfeldt ; producenter, Anders Landström, Bo Ehrhardt, Series 3
- Art & architecture of the Arab world, produced by SWR and SWR Media ; in cooperation with UNESCO ; ZDF ; DW, Volume II
- Bigger than T. Rex, a production of Nova/WGBH Boston and National Geographic Studios in association with National Geographic Channels International and ZDF ; produced and directed by Chad Cohen
- Tango, café de los maestros & friends, a production of Accentus Music, in co-production with ZDF ; producer/director, Maria Stodtmeier ; produced by Paul Smaczny
- Andrea Chénier, dramma storico di Luigi Illica ; musica di Umberto Giordano ; regia, Vaclav Kašlik
- Bauhaus spirit, a film by Niels Bobrinker and Thomas Tielsch ; eine Produktion von Filmtank ; in Koproduktion mit ZDF, in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE ; buch, regie und montage, Niels Bobrinker und Thomas Tielsch
- Don Giovanni, dramma giocoso in two acts, libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte ; music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; [stage] director, Michael Hampe ; video director, Claus Viller ; producer, Uli Märkle ; a coproduction of ORF, ZDF and Telemondial
- Montserrat Caballé and Marilyn Horne, two gala concerts, Evviva belcanto & Le grande primadonne, a ZDF, NVC Arts co-production
- Malena es un nombre de tango, Alta Films presenta ; Tornasol Films, S.A. ... [et al.] presentan con la participación de TVE, Televisión Española y la colaboración de Canal+, ZDF ; guión, Senel Paz ; producida por Gerardo Herrero y Javier López Blanco ; dirigida por Gerardo Herrero
- Children of Syria, an ITN production for WGBH/Frontline in association with Channel 4 and ZDF ; filmed, produced and directed by Marcel Mettelsiefen ; co-produced and edited by Stephen Ellis, A.C.E. ; senior producer, Dan Edge
- The death of Klinghoffer, music by John Adams ; libretto by Alice Goodman ; direction and screenplay by Penny Woolcock ; producer, Madonna Baptiste ; executive producer, Jan Younghusband ; A Blast! Films production for Channel 4 in association with ZDF, ARTE, SBS and SR DRS
- An Italian night, live from the Waldbühne Berlin, Jonas Kaufmann, Anita Rachvelishvili ; a production of ZDF, 3sat
- Bach sacred music, [narrated by] Helmut Rilling ; eine Produktion der Unitel im Auftrag des ZDF ; Herstellungsleitung, Horant H. Hohlfeld ; Regie, Klaus Lindemann
- Spirits of music, live from the Market Square, Leipzig, a production of EuroArts Music International GmbH in co-production with ZDF ; directed by Henning Kasten, Part II
- Fierrabras, opera in three acts, by Franz Schubert ; libretto by Joseph Kupelwieser, after the old French epic Fierabras and the saga Eginhard und Emma ; a co-production of ZDF, 3sat, Unitel Classica ; in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburger Festspiele
- The lesson, Film Movement, an Abraxas Film production in coproduction with Graal Films, Little Wing, Screening Emotions supported by ZDF, American Foundation for Bulgaria Central Cooperative Union ; produced by Magdelena Ilieva, Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Konstantina Stavrianou, Rena Vougioukalou ; written and directed by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
- Arne Dahl, Produced by Filmlance International AB in co-production with Sveriges Television, ZDF German Television network, ZDF Enterprises GMBH, Filmregion Stockholm-Malardalen and Nordisk Film Production; producers, Ulf Synnerholm and Martin Cronström; directors, Mani Maserrat, Harald Hamrell, Jorgen Bergmark, Tova Magnusson, Niklas Ohlson and Matthias Ohlsson, Season one
- Silence, Das letzte Schweigen, ein Film von Baran bo Odar ; Produzenten, Jörg Schulze ... [et al.] ; Koproduzent, Drehbuch & Regie, Baran bo Odar ; eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion von Cine + und Luethje Schneider Film in Koproduktion mit ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE
- Opening concert for the 750th anniversary of Berlin, Eröffnungskonzert zum 750. Stadtjubiläum von Berlin = Concert d'inauguration du 750e anniversaire de Berlin, a co-production of ZDF and Telemondial
- Let's make an opera, Benjamin Britten ; a film by Petr Weigl ; a coproduction of TV 2000 Günter Herbertz, K.F.a.s. Prag, and Cable Plus ; in cooperation with RM Arts and ZDF
- Wetlands, Feuchtgebiete, a Rommel Film production in co-production with ZDF ; written by Claus Falkenberg and David Wnendt ; produced by Peter Rommel ; directed by David Wnendt
- Pictures at an exhibition, Mussorgsky. Symphony no. 2 / Borodin
- Bolshe vita, M.I.T. Studio and ZDF-Das Kleine Fernsehspiel present ; written and directed by Ibolya Fekete ; producer, István Dárday
- David Garrett, rock symphonies, produced by Universal Music and DEAG Classics in co-operation with ZDF ; in association with International Media LLC ; directed by Frank Hof
- Kaguyahime, the Moon Princess, Nederlands Dans Theater ; choreography by Jirí Kylián ; composed and conducted by Maki Ishii ; directed for TV by Hans Hulscher ; producer NOS, George Van Breemen ; producer NHK, Hiroko Okudaira ; a co-production of NOS-TV/RM ARTS/NHK/NDT/ZDF-ARTE/RTP/Television Metropolitana, S.A. de C.V. "Canal 22"
- Day night day night, IFC First Take presents a Facefilm, ZDF das Kleine Fernsehspiel in cooperation with Arte production ; producers, Melanie Judd, Julia Loktev, Jessica Levin ; written and directed by Julia Loktev
- Steve Reich's city life, a Tempomedia-Film GmbH production commissioned by ZDF German Television Network in association with ARTE and NVC Arts ; written and directed by Manfred Waffender
- Inclined planes, a Millimages, Pearson Broadband and Schlessinger Media coproduction in association with France 5, ZDF, TVO, TFO ; producer, Emmanuel Franck ; director, Diego Zamora ; script by Adrian Raeside, Simon Jollands and Jonathan Peel
- Art & architecture of the Arab world, executive producer, Gisela Mahlmann ; produced by Along Mekong Productions, Heidelberg for SWR and SWR Media ; in cooperation with UNESCO, ZDF, DW-TV, Vol. I
- Marx reloaded, a film, by Jason Barker ; co-direction, Alexandra Weltz ; written and directed by Jason Barker ; producers, Irene Höfer, Andreas Schroth ; co-producer, Jason Barker ; a production by Medea Film/Irene Höfer, in co-production with Films Noirs ; commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with ARTE
- Salome, [music by Richard] Strauss ; [text after Oscar Wilde's stage poem in the German translation by Hedwig Lachmann]
- The loves of Emma Bardac, a telefilm, by Thomas Mowrey, in association with Brilliant Music, NHK Enterprises, Sony Classical and Z D F
- In rehearsal, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Claude Debussy, La mer, producer, Colin Wilson ; director, Peter Berggren ; a Spektrum TV/RM Arts production in association with ZDF-Arte, Sveriges television
- The last of England, British Screen/Channel Four/ZDF present an Anglo International film ; produced by James Mackay and Don Boyd ; directed by Derek Jarman