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
  • 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 collap...

    Hitler's Hollywood
  • 2021
    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    6.42021HD

    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 love...

    Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  • 2022
    Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

    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 batta...

    Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
  • 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 millio...

    Avenging Evil
  • 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 dema...

    Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde
  • 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, a scien...

    Merkel
  • 2021
    Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte

    Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte

    Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte

    02021HD

    Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte
  • 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 persecute...

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
  • 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 II....

    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 leadership....

    Tage des Sturms
  • 2022
    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    8.22022HD

    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 musical...

    Love, Deutschmarks and Death
  • 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 thou...

    Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
  • 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 considere...

    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema
  • 1990
    Die Dichter und die Räterepublik

    Die Dichter und die Räterepublik

    Die Dichter und die Räterepublik

    61990HD

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

    Die Dichter und die Räterepublik
  • 2021
    Woher kommst du eigentlich? Schwarze in Deutschland

    Woher kommst du eigentlich? Schwarze in Deutschland

    Woher kommst du eigentlich? Schwarze in Deutschland

    02021HD

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

    Woher kommst du eigentlich? Schwarze in Deutschland
  • 2023
    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler

    8.52023HD

    Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
  • 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? The...

    Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik
  • 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 psychopaths...

    The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
  • 1999
    Die Sekretäre

    Die Sekretäre

    Die Sekretäre

    01999HD

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

    Die Sekretäre