The Best TV Shows on ZDFinfo

Every ZDFinfo Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of November 2025, our compilation of ZDFinfo’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Among ZDFinfo’s finest offerings are Les derniers jours d'une icône and Ich kann Kanzler, which debuted in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Across the timeline from 2007 to 2023, ZDFinfo has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Lebensmitteltricks - Lege packt aus
    Lebensmitteltricks - Lege packt aus (2021)9.0

  • Ermittler!
    Ermittler! (2018)8.0

  • besseresser challenge
    besseresser challenge (2020)8.0

  • Killing for Love: Der Fall Jens Söring
    Killing for Love: Der Fall Jens Söring (2020)7.0

    For more than 33 years, German Jens Söring was imprisoned in the USA - convicted of murdering the parents of his lover, Elizabeth Haysom. In December 2019, he was transferred to Germany under the condition that he never return to the US. The four-part ZDFinfo series "Killing For Love - The Jens Söring Case" describes how this sensational case unfolded from murder to verdict and beyond.

  • Nazi Underworld
    Nazi Underworld (2011)6.8

    Adolf Hitler pretended to be poor but amassed a huge private fortune. The Führer may have believed he was Jewish. Rigorously fact-checked revelations throw a genuine new light on the Nazi regime.

  • The Cuba Libre Story
    The Cuba Libre Story (2015)6.5

    Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

  • Franco: The Brutal Truth About Spain’s Dictator
    Franco: The Brutal Truth About Spain’s Dictator (2017)6.5

    Using extensive research, this five-part docuseries takes a comprehensive look at Francisco Franco's turbulent, decades-long regime.

  • The Abyss – Rise and Fall of the Nazis
    The Abyss – Rise and Fall of the Nazis (2021)6.2

    Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe in the wake of World War I.

  • Annihilation
    Annihilation (2014)5.7

    Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we have not finished accounting for the destruction of Europe's Jewish population. One question remains today: not why, but how was the Shoah possible?

  • Face to Face
    Face to Face (2014)2.0

  • Les derniers jours d'une icône
    Les derniers jours d'une icône (2007)N/A

  • Ich kann Kanzler
    Ich kann Kanzler (2009)N/A

  • Momente der Geschichte
    Momente der Geschichte (2011)N/A

  • Missing Link – Die unglaublichsten Verbindungen
    Missing Link – Die unglaublichsten Verbindungen (2011)N/A

  • Hitlers Vollstrecker – Das Volksgericht und der Widerstand
    Hitlers Vollstrecker – Das Volksgericht und der Widerstand (2011)N/A

  • Countdown zum Zweiten Weltkrieg
    Countdown zum Zweiten Weltkrieg (2018)N/A

  • Mythos - Die größten Rätsel der Geschichte
    Mythos - Die größten Rätsel der Geschichte (2020)N/A

  • Wer ist …?
    Wer ist …? (2022)N/A

  • Neue Deutsche Welle
    Neue Deutsche Welle (2023)N/A

  • Russlands Kriege
    Russlands Kriege (2023)N/A