German History Movies

  • 2019
    The Painted Bird

    The Painted Bird

    The Painted Bird

    7.12019HD

    A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.

    The Painted Bird
  • 2022
    Ordinary Men: The

    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...

    Ordinary Men: The
  • 2021
    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    6.32021HD

    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...

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  • 2023
    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    8.52023HD

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
  • 2017
    Hitler's Hollywood

    Hitler's Hollywood

    Hitler's Hollywood

    6.42017HD

    Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

    Hitler's Hollywood
  • 2022
    Merkel

    Merkel

    Merkel

    7.12022HD

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

    Merkel
  • 2022
    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    8.2352022HD

    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...

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death
  • 2023
    Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party

    Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party

    Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party

    02023HD

    The night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of the twentieth century. A localised uprising in...

    Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party
  • 2021
    Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

    Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

    Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

    6.62021HD

    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...

    Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
  • 2003
    Tage des Sturms

    Tage des Sturms

    Tage des Sturms

    2.52003HD

    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...

    Tage des Sturms
  • 2021
    Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood

    Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood

    Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood

    7.32021HD

    For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of...

    Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
  • 2024
    Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik

    Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik

    Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik

    02024HD

    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?...

    Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik
  • 2020
    Hotel Astoria

    Hotel Astoria

    Hotel Astoria

    02020HD

    At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from...

    Hotel Astoria
  • 2014
    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

    6.72014HD

    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...

    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema
  • 2014
    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen

    02014HD

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

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
  • 2021
    Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde

    Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde

    Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde

    82021HD

    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...

    Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde
  • 2019
    Avenging Evil

    Avenging Evil

    Avenging Evil

    82019HD

    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...

    Avenging Evil
  • 2022
    The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary

    The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary

    The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary

    6.62022HD

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

    The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
  • 2024
    Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur

    Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur

    Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur

    02024HD

    Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the...

    Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
  • 2019
    Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro

    Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro

    Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro

    72019HD

    An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), celebrated as one of the greatest...

    Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro