German History Movies

Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative post-war history that is at the same time a...

Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was...

Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman,...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that really the case? The film takes a critical look on the...

The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together,...

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages?...

It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jews in Europe. The participants were not...

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most elaborate in the Federal Republic of Germany....

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is...

Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood therefore ended violently and too soon. In this...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material assets and countless cultural treasures was mourned...

Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 from the perspective of various...

In 1941, a Jewish woman on the run with forged papers involuntarily shares a train compartment with a German officer.

In 1946, just after the end of World War II, a secret organization of Holocaust survivors plans a terrible revenge: since the Nazis have killed...

Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

Prejudices, ignorance, and racism still leave their mark on the everyday life of black Germans, respectively Europeans, until today. How do...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are...

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to...