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German documentary films

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Triumph of the Will

1935 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

Bowling for Columbine

2002 documentary film directed by Michael Moore

1938 black-and-white Nazi propaganda documentary film, written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin

Mr Nobody Against Putin

Mr Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. It follows Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. While recording his students, Talankin also documents the Putin administration's moves to control public perception during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.

Der Sieg des Glaubens

1933 propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl

The Story of the Weeping Camel

2003 film directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni

2023 film by Kaouther Ben Hania

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis

1927 film by Walter Ruttmann

2019 film directed by Alexander Nanau

Winged Migration

2001 documentary film by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats,

1999 film by Werner Herzog

2020 documentary film directed by Nathan Grossman

Serengeti Shall Not Die

1959 German documentary film directed by Bernhard Grzimek

The Look of Silence

2014 film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

2020 film directed by Maite Alberdi

Of Fathers and Sons

2017 film by Talal Derki

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

1971 film by Dušan Makavejev

Tokyo-Ga is a 1985 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders, about Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. An international co-production of the United States and West Germany, the film was shot in spring 1983. Its focus ranges from explicit explorations of Ozu's filmmaking—Wenders interviews Ozu's regular cinematographer, Yuharu Atsuta, and one of Ozu's favorite actors, Chishū Ryū—to scenes of contemporary Tokyo, featuring pachinko machines and plastic food displays. Wenders introduces the film as a "diary on film."

This Rain Will Never Stop

Ukrainian film directed by Alina Gorlova

Steal This Film

2006 short film

Lessons of Darkness

1992 Documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Chariots of the Gods

1970 film by Harald Reinl

2015 documentary film by Vitaly Mansky

Lightning Over Water

1980 film by Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray

Into Great Silence

2005 film by Philip Gröning

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Notebook on Cities and Clothes

1989 film by Wim Wenders

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

2018 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders

Ways to Strength and Beauty

1925 film by Nicholas Kaufmann

1982 film by Wim Wenders

The Green Prince

2014 film by Nadav Schirman

Football Under Cover

2008 German/Iranian documentary film

2017 film directed by Andres Veiel

1970 film by Werner Herzog

1984 film by Maximilian Schell

Albert Schweitzer

1957 film directed by Jerome Hill

Absolut Warhola

2001 film by Stanislaw Mucha

Bridges of Sarajevo

2014 anthology film by 13 different directors

2021 film directed by Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech

2020 film by Gianfranco Rosi

2017 film by Ai Weiwei

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

1950 documentary film

Hitler: A Career

1977 film by Joachim Fest

Female Pleasure

2018 film directed by Barbara Miller

2011 film by Jason Barker

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971 Documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Our Daily Bread

2005 documentary movie on industrialized food production directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

2024 film by Andres Veiel

Architecton is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky about the ways that stone and concrete architecture express the values of societies.

Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You

2019 documentary film by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

2001 German documentary film directed by Andres Veiel

2023 documentary film by Wim Wenders

The Return to Homs

2013 documentary film directed by Talal Derki

The White Diamond

2004 Documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Cutting Through Rocks

2025 documentary film

Melody of the World

1929 film by Walter Ruttmann

Death for Five Voices

1995 film by Werner Herzog

Before Flying Back to the Earth

2005 film by Arūnas Matelis

Battle of Berlin

1973 film by Franz Baake