Topic: No war!

In the Sooner Channel theme "Peace Now!" you will find our specially compiled selection of films with stories about peace, reconciliation and the power of humanity. These films not only offer exciting entertainment, but are also thought-provoking and inspire you to reflect on your own role in creating peace.
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  • Reihe 6

    Reihe 6

    2023

    25min

    16+

    This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.


  • Signs of War

    Signs of War

    2022

    1h.20min

    16+

    To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.


  • Searching For Gerda Taro

    Searching For Gerda Taro

    2021

    57min

    16+

    The life and work of a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose would be forgotten.


  • Klondike

    Klondike

    2022

    1h.40min

    16+

    A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.


  • Our Men

    Our Men

    2021

    1h.46min

    16+

    Nika leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a French foreign legionnaire, to a military camp in Corsica. There, she meets the commander's wife.


  • Fortuna Valentyn

    Fortuna Valentyn

    2022

    1h.5min

    16+

    After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.


  • Just a Friday

    Just a Friday

    2022

    26min

    12 FSK

    When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.


  • I Won't Go Anywhere

    I Won't Go Anywhere

    2021

    52min

    16+

    This film sensitively shows how two war orphans, in the face of an inhumane policy of conquest and the loss of their home, support each other.


  • Amal

    Amal

    2014

    55min

    16+

    Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.


  • Stress

    Stress

    2020

    1h.22min

    16+

    Five young veterans of the Afghanistan war, outwardly unscathed but inwardly hurting, feel misunderstood upon their return to civilian life.


  • Endphase

    Endphase

    2021

    1h.24min

    16+

    A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.


  • Camille

    Camille

    2019

    1h.32min

    16+

    Photojournalist Camille goes to the Central African Republic to cover a brewing civil war. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.


  • Afghanistan - New beginning?

    Afghanistan - New beginning?

    2006

    37min

    16+

    Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.


  • You will never understand

    You will never understand

    2003

    52min

    16+

    Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.


  • Learning to Milk a Cow

    Learning to Milk a Cow

    2016

    1h.4min

    16+

    At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.


  • Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

    Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

    2013

    1h.43min

    18

    Horrifying videos of the Syrian civil war, taken with mobile phones in the besieged city of Homs, show the horrors of war unfiltered.


  • Bunker - Die letzten Tage

    Bunker - Die letzten Tage

    2003

    1h.22min

    16+

    At the end of the Second World War, the German capital was filled with an underground labyrinth of bunkers. These are the stories of the people who stayed ...


  • Cahier Africain

    Cahier Africain

    2016

    1h.59min

    0 FSK

    A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.


  • Hotel Yugoslavia

    Hotel Yugoslavia

    2017

    1h.18min

    16+

    A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. Belgrade's cityscape is still haunted by the Hotel like a mirror held up to a Serbia ...


  • Children Below Deck

    Children Below Deck

    2018

    1h.34min

    16+

    This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.


  • We Weren't Given Anything for Free

    We Weren't Given Anything for Free

    2015

    58min

    0 FSK

    Transporting baskets full of hand grenades and secret messages through Nazi roadblocks was just a part of Annitas work during WW2.


  • Hitler's Hollywood

    Hitler's Hollywood

    2017

    1h.45min

    0 FSK

    Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.


  • East of War

    East of War

    1996

    1h.52min

    16+

    The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.


  • Fidai

    Fidai

    2012

    1h.22min

    16+

    The gripping documentary FIDAI is about a veteran of the Algerian war.


  • God is not Working on Sunday!

    God is not Working on Sunday!

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

    After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.


  • Haunted

    Haunted

    2014

    1h.57min

    16+

    “When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back.”


  • Toumast – Guitars And Kalashnikovs

    Toumast – Guitars And Kalashnikovs

    2010

    1h.26min

    16+

    Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.


  • The Freedom Last But One - Landscapes of Otto Dov Kulka

    The Freedom Last But One - Landscapes of Otto Dov Kulka

    2018

    1h.5min

    0 FSK

    An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.


  • What the Wind Took Away

    What the Wind Took Away

    2017

    1h.15min

    16+

    Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.