The Best TV Shows on ZDFinfo

Every ZDFinfo Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of ZDFinfo’s elite series, with our list refreshed for June 2026. Among ZDFinfo’s finest offerings are Final Days of an Icon and Ich kann Kanzler, which debuted in 2007 and 2009, respectively. ZDFinfo has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2007 all the way to 2025.

  • Final Days of an Icon
    Final Days of an Icon (2007)10.0

  • Die SS - Macht und Mythos
    Die SS - Macht und Mythos (2022)8.5

  • The History of the RAF
    The History of the RAF (2015)8.0

    In 2014, Germany television network ZDF commissioned a comprehensive TV documentary on the history of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In six 45-minute parts, the series describes the origins, rise, and fall of the terrorist organization "Red Army Faction." Interviewees include Winfried Ridder, former head of department at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Rainer Hofmeyer, former head of department at the Federal Criminal Police Office; and political scientist Dr. Wolfgang Kraushaar.

  • Ermittler!
    Ermittler! (2018)8.0

  • 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)6.6

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Die Büffelranch
    Die Büffelranch (2012)N/A

  • Geheime Fronten
    Geheime Fronten (2017)N/A

  • Das war dann mal weg
    Das war dann mal weg (2017)N/A

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

  • Countdown zum Kriegsende - die letzten 100 Tage
    Countdown zum Kriegsende - die letzten 100 Tage (2020)N/A

  • Schuld & Sühne
    Schuld & Sühne (2021)N/A

  • Im Kopf der Hochstapler
    Im Kopf der Hochstapler (2022)N/A

  • Russian Wonderland
    Russian Wonderland (2023)N/A

  • Die 2010er – Jahrzehnt der Illusionen
    Die 2010er – Jahrzehnt der Illusionen (2025)N/A