Wolfgang Petersen Movies

Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a...

A fictionalized version of a military training fight.

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

The Agency receives word that Fidel Castro will be assassinated when he visits America and the CIA has 48 hours to stop the assassination.

Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a...

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world...

Today, 80 years after the events and 40 years after the film, these images and testimonies shed an unexpected light on the reality of the fiction...

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...

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

Documentary about Hollywood.

Author Gundolf S. Freyermuth goes Back to the Boat with director Wolfgang Petersen, star Jürgen Prochnow, and others to discuss the production...

When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out over the edge of the bed. The young man remembers...

Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But...