german history movies

The Painted Bird (2019)
7.09 / 10

War, Drama, Thriller

A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Romance, History

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...

Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama, History

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?...

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" (2022)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, History

The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 1947/1948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the...

Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History

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

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)
6.6 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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...

Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood (2021)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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

Merkel (2022)
7.1 / 10

Documentary

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...

Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema (2014)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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...

Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

DDR - die entsorgte Republik (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Die Dichter und die Räterepublik (1990)
6 / 10

Documentary

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

Love, Deutschmarks and Death (2022)
8.5 / 10

Documentary

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...

Tage des Sturms (2003)
2.5 / 10

History, Drama, TV Movie

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...

Die Sekretäre (1999)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Hitler's Putsch: The Birth of the Nazi Party (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

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

Kongomüller (2013)
0 / 10

Drama, History

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

German Watergate (1969)
0 / 10

Thriller, History

An aspiring young politician named Willy Brandt wants to become German Chancellor, but the current Chancellor Konrad Adenauer wants to prevent this...