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1. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,677 | Gross: $2.22M
2. The Blue Max (1966)
Approved | 156 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 7,628
3. The Red Baron (2008)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Lena Headey, Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes
Votes: 13,159 | Gross: $0.04M
4. Max (I) (2002)
R | 106 min | Drama, War
A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.
Director: Menno Meyjes | Stars: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker
Votes: 8,793 | Gross: $0.53M
5. Fall of Eagles (1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
Stars: Michael Hordern, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Gayle Hunnicutt
Votes: 667
6. Effi Briest (1974)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 2,700
7. Westfront 1918 (1930)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen
Votes: 2,423
8. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt
Votes: 1,922
9. Lessons of a Dream (2011)
113 min | Drama, Sport
An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
Director: Sebastian Grobler | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme, Justus von Dohnányi
Votes: 2,595
10. Buddenbrooks (2008)
151 min | Drama
In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and ... See full summary »
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, August Diehl
Votes: 1,569
11. Bismarck (1940)
118 min | Biography, Drama
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack
Votes: 244
12. The Guns of August (1964)
100 min | Documentary, History, War
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
Director: Nathan Kroll | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau
Votes: 181
13. Die Männer der Emden (2012)
180 min | Adventure, Drama, History
When their ship is sunk in the first world war, in the Indian ocean, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-live odyssey.
Director: Berengar Pfahl | Stars: Sibel Kekilli, Ken Duken, Felicitas Woll, Matthias Schloo
Votes: 354
14. Der Untertan (1951)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer, Ernst Legal
Votes: 946
15. Die Entlassung (1942)
110 min | Drama, History
A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Emil Jannings, Margarete Schön, Christian Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 106
16. The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
107 min | Comedy
A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner
Votes: 119
17. Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1976)
302 min | Documentary
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Winifred Wagner, Gottfried Wagner, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Votes: 88
18. Morenga (1985)
112 min | Drama, War
Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
Director: Egon Günther | Stars: Jacques Breuer, Edwin Noel, Jürgen Holtz, Manfred Seipold
Votes: 26
19. Doomsday: World War I (2013– )
135 min | Documentary, History, War
The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Sönke Neitzel, Ian Kershaw, Hew Strachan
Votes: 94
20. Bismarck (1990– )
180 min | History
Stars: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gottfried Lackmann, Rudolf Donath, Ulli Philipp
Votes: 29
21. Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Harald Juhnke, Udo Samel, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 131
22. Reichsgründung/Die nervöse Großmacht (2012 TV Movie)
180 min | History
Director: Bernd Fischerauer | Stars: Torsten Lennie Münchow, Bibiana Beglau, Michael Mendl, Undine Brixner
Votes: 26
23. The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
70 min | Drama, History, War
A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Rupert Julian, Elmo Lincoln, Nigel De Brulier, Lon Chaney
Votes: 42
24. The Necessary War (2014 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History, War
Max Hastings, who himself worked on the landmark series The Great War (1964) 50 years before, argues the case that his and many other ancestors did not die in vain in The First World War.
Director: Karen McGann | Stars: Max Hastings, Clive Harris, John Horne, Michael Howard
Votes: 38
25. Marinemeuterei 1917 (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Hermann Kugelstadt | Stars: Hans Paetsch, Hans Daniel, Kurt Schmitt-Mainz, Heinz Weiss
Votes: 26
26. Majestät brauchen Sonne (2000)
105 min | Documentary
Documentary about the last German emperor Wilhelm II, who was also the first German film star.
Director: Peter Schamoni | Stars: Mario Adorf, Donald Arthur, Arthur Brauss, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Votes: 115
27. Hunt the Kaiser's Cruisers (2006 TV Movie)
55 min | History
Director: Jürgen Stumpfhaus | Stars: Berg Andreas, Max Block, Jonathan Blume, Haller Christian
Votes: 33
28. Wonderful Times (1950)
95 min | Documentary
Directors: Erik Ode, Günter Neumann | Stars: Bruno Fritz, Edith Schollwer, Tatjana Sais, Erik Ode
Votes: 28
29. Omaruru (1976– )
25 min
Stars: Manfred Seipold, Walter Giller, Cocky Tlhotlhalemaje, Fiona Fraser
Votes: 11
30. Tod in der Wüste - Kaiser Wilhelms Krieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika (2004 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Peter Dreckmann
31.
Der Wunschbaum (2004– )
Episode:
Teil 1
(2004)
88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Dietmar Klein | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Michael Degen, Peter Lohmeyer, Monica Bleibtreu
Votes: 8
32.
The Real... (1998–2004)
Episode:
Kaiser Bill
(1998)
Documentary
The life and career of Wilhelm II of Germany, the final Kaiser of Imperial Germany.
Stars: Jane Copland, Kaiser Wilhelm II
33.
Great Military Blunders (1999– )
Episode:
Best Laid Plans
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Historical examples of grand military plans failing either because they were unrealistic, not followed properly or were created with too much influence of political considerations and interservice-rivalries.
Director: Katharine English
Votes: 7