Season 1

1. Chongqing - the largest city in the world

2024-01-02 · 44m

This megacity is growing relentlessly and is not for the faint of heart. Anyone wanting to experience China simply cannot miss Chongqing – the largest city in the world.

2. Mexico City - creative and combative

2024-01-03 · 43m

Mexico City was once feared; today, the megacity is a tourist hotspot. The city has retained its fighting spirit – in some places for the sake of spectacle, in others for survival.

3. Lagos - Metropolis of Extremes

2024-01-04 · 44m

Lagos is growing faster than any other city in the world. A megacity of extremes: while many of its 25 million inhabitants live in poverty, money is no object in its clubs.

4. Rome - Journey to the heart of the city

2024-03-31 · 45m

Extraordinary people, touching stories and mysterious places.

5. London

2024-12-30 · 45m

As night falls over the Thames, those sharp contrasts emerge that make London arguably the most interesting and international metropolis in Europe.

6. Rio de Janeiro

2025-01-02 · 45m

Rio de Janeiro is Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue, and Copacabana. When night falls, culture and music pulsate – but it's also hard work in the "engine room" of the metropolis.

7. Istanbul

2025-05-01 · 45m

Between tradition, chaos, and constant upheaval: How does beleaguered Istanbul, with its 16 million inhabitants, manage to survive as a modern global city despite all the tensions?

8. Mumbai

2025-07-31 · 45m

9. Vienna

2025-08-07 · 45m

Vienna is beautiful. Framed by the facades of the Austro-Hungarian era, people enjoy culture and coffee, clattering past St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Sisi Museum in horse-drawn carriages. Until night falls.

10. Toronto

2025-12-29 · 44m

When pilot Ky sees the Toronto skyline during her evening approach, it's the happiest moment of her day. The financial metropolis transforms into a vibrant, dazzling melting pot.

11. Paris

2026-05-25 · 54m

City of love, fashion metropolis, place of longing for millions of people – that is Paris, often described as the most beautiful city in the world.