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1. The Friendship Train

This short film details the history of the 'Friendship Train', created, following the end of World War II, to travel across the United States to collect food for war ravaged countries in Europe.

2. Germany: A Summer's Fairytale (Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen)

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

3. Die Welt der Reichsbürger - Träumer, Aussteiger, Extremisten (Die Welt der Reichsbürger - Träumer, Aussteiger, Extremisten)

An increasing number of people in Germany no longer want anything to do with their state. A mixture of idiosyncrats and anti-system activists are turning their backs on the Federal Republic. How did the "Reichsbürger" movement become radical? What are their motives? What emerges is a European community of anarchists, businessmen, esotericists and adventurers - between a self-declared fight for freedom and obstinacy.

4. White Man with Black Bread (Der Weiße mit dem Schwarzbrot)

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

5. Auschwitz the Destruction Trilogy (Auschwitz the Destruction Trilogy)

(Auschwitz the Destruction Trilogy)

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

6. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin)

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

7. Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen)

The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors who tell what life and death were like in Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.

8. Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies (Bruce Willis - Warum die Legende niemals stirbt)

An in-depth look at the life and career of Bruce Willis, featuring never-before-seen photos and videos from the Willis family collection. Narrated by Bruce Willis.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

9. Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion . The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

10. White Terror (White Terror)

A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, Russia, and North America. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war, and segregation.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

11. Zeitgeist

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

It has an average vote of 6.924 on TMDB.

12. Sieg im Osten (Sieg im Osten)

The army of the GDR, called NVA had not survived the reunification of Germany, it was completely absorbed by the Bundeswehr and scrapped subsequently. But what apparently went on so smoothly as a peaceful unification of hostile brothers quietly left deep scars in the East German landscape.

13. After Hitler (Après Hitler)

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.

It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.

14. Im Westen ging die Sonne auf (Im Westen ging die Sonne auf)

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the post-war period, doesn’t exist anymore nowadays in that form. Many of the once glorious clubs which dominated German soccer until the 1970s faded into obscurity without financial backers.</p><p> The documentary “Im Westen ging die Sonne auf" shows the history of the “Revierfußball” from after the second World War until the decline of the mining industry and recalls legendary players and forgotten clubs. The film shows especially how deeply rooted the sport was back then in the entire lifestyle of the Ruhr area - in private life as well as in society - and how structural change also left clearly visible marks in sports. With pictures from back then, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and footage of original locations nowadays, a contemporary document of German post-war history, by taking the example of soccer, has been created.

15. Tomorrow's Power

Tomorrow’s Power is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental emergencies they are facing. In the war-torn, oil-rich Arauca province in Colombia, communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up. In Germany activists are pushing the country to fully divest from fossil-fuel extraction and complete its transition to renewable energy. In Gaza health practitioners are harnessing solar power to battle daily life-threatening energy blackouts in hospitals.

16. Ich. Immendorff (Ich. Immendorff)

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important German artists. The filmmakers accompanied Immendorff over a period of two years – until his death in May 2007. The artist had been living for nine years knowing that he was terminally ill with ALS. The film shows how Immendorff continued to work with unabated energy and how he tried not to let himself be restrained by his deteriorating health.

17. Chaja & Mimi (Chaja & Mimi)

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.

18. Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan (De Nuremberg à Tokyo)

The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established in Japan as a special jurisdiction in 1946 to judge the war crimes of the Japanese leaders; and how and why officials in Washington prevented Emperor Hirohito to be seen sat on the bench.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

19. Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära (Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära)

The film shines a light onto federal chancellor Angela Merkel and her now ending 16-year-long tenure. An era, not an episode. And a vagarious relationship history between the chancellor and the Germans. Who has changed whom here?

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

20. Hitler Lives

This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

It has an average vote of 4.75 on TMDB.