A dervish of creative activity, in-between making films for the cinema Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a genius at extracting funding from West Germany’s various regional public broadcasting stations. Not only did this result in a bushel of telefilms, but extraordinary ventures into the serial form, including the two-part World on a Wire, and the five episodes of Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day. Even when making work for small-screen broadcast, Fassbinder’s vision was never less than capaciously cinematic—so leave the boob tube at home and see the only real “Must See TV” writ large.