German History Movies
- 2019
The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird7.12019HD
A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.
- 2022
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"7.52022HD
Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police...
- 2021
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Fabian: Going to the Dogs6.32021HD
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in...
- 2023
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler8.52023HD
- 2017
Hitler's Hollywood
Hitler's Hollywood6.42017HD
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...
- 2022
Merkel
Merkel7.12022HD
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman,...
- 2022
Love, Deutschmarks and Death
Love, Deutschmarks and Death8.2352022HD
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...
- 2023
Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party
Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party02023HD
The night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of the twentieth century. A localised uprising in...
- 2021
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story6.62021HD
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War...
- 2003
Tage des Sturms
Tage des Sturms2.52003HD
On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political...
- 2021
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood7.32021HD
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of...
- 2024
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik02024HD
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?...
- 2020
Hotel Astoria
Hotel Astoria02020HD
At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from...
- 2014
Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema
Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema6.72014HD
On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is...
- 2014
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen02014HD
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was...
- 2021
Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde
Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde82021HD
It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Netherlands occupied German soil as a pledge for...
- 2019
Avenging Evil
Avenging Evil82019HD
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...
- 2022
The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary6.62022HD
It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jews in Europe. The participants were not...
- 2024
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur02024HD
Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the...
- 2019
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro72019HD
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), celebrated as one of the greatest...