- Country Germany
- Original language German
- Genres Documentary, Drama, History
- Runtime 45 minutes
- Total runtime 682 hours 30 minutes
- Status Continuing
- Network ZDFinfo
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Showrunner
Guido Knopp
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External links
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Last update
2 December 2025 - 05:36
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ZDF-History
3 members
26 seasons910 episodes
Follow the tale of important people in German history. Watch as they go in depth about why they think the way they do, and how they came to make the choices they did in their life time.
Season
Episodes
Actors (53)
Guido Knopp
Self - Host
Nick Benjamin
Self - Narrator
Götz Aly
Self
Brigitte Hamann
Self
Albert Göring
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Götz George
Self
Heinrich George
Self (archiveFootage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archiveFootage)
Joe Louis
Self (archiveFootage)
Max Schmeling
Self (archiveFootage)
Jochen Nix
Self - Narrator
Joachim Höppner
Self- Narrator
Charles A. Lindbergh
Self (archiveFootage)
Konrad Adenauer
Self (archive footage)
Egon Bahr
Self
Rainer Barzel
Self
Matthias Brandt
Self
Peter Brandt
Self
Rut Brandt
Self
Willy Brandt
Self (archive footage)
Horst Ehmke
Self
Günter Grass
Self
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Dieter Lueg
Self
Gerhard Löwenthal
Self
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Self
Walter Scheel
Self
Helmut Schmidt
Self
Klaus Schütz
Self
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Wehner
Self (archive footage)
Markus Wolf
Self
Christian Brückner
Self - Narrator
Edmund Hillary
Self
Reinhold Messner
Himself / Self
Mick Jagger
Self (archive footage)
Anne, Princess Royal
Herself
Paul Breitner
Himself
Felix Baumgartner
Himself / Self
Laura Dekker
Herself / Self
Erich Honecker
Self (Archive)
Joachim Jauer
Self
Vera Lengsfeld
Self
Fritz Bauer
Self (Archive)
Klaus Taubert
Self
Reinhold Andert
Self
Thomas Kunze
Self
Martin Sabrow
Self
Bernd Brückner
Self
Bertrand Piccard
Himself / Self
Rolf Giesen
Self
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