The Best Europe Documentaries

World Affairs & Investigations - 206 free documentaries about europe.

Start with GERMANY IS OVER (14 min, Kurzgesagt), then 3-MMC: The Party Drug Taking Europe by Storm (25 min, VICE). All 206 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on europe is Postwar by Tony Judt.

• GERMANY IS OVER (14 min, Kurzgesagt)
• 3-MMC: The Party Drug Taking Europe by Storm | High Society (25 min, VICE)
• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Afro Germany - Being black and German (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Investigating far-right women's groups (29 min, DW Documentary)
• The kidnapping campaign of Nazi Germany (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Stanley Tucci's Tuscany Trek | Tucci in Italy (44 min, National Geographic)
• Ibiza: Spring Breakers Of Europe (28 min, VICE)
• New life for Italy’s ghost towns (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Stanley Tucci's Savory Journey Through Italy | Tucci in Italy S1 MEGA Episode (133 min, National Geographic)
• Europe's drug mafia (1/2) - How drugs made the Netherlands rich (44 min, DW Documentary)
• Forced sterilization in Europe (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The rise of illiberal Europe - The enemy inside the gates (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Luxembourg: Poverty in Europe's wealthiest country (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Slovak porters - The last in Europe (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Preppers: Sweden bracing for the worst (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The Rise of Germany's New Right (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• I Ate from a Meat Chandelier and Fell in Love with a Baker in New York | Big Little Italy (20 min, National Geographic)
• Arto Saari: Finland’s Skating Phenom | Epicly Later'd (60 min, VICE)
• Norway at its limit - Tourists flood the north (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Germany and the impact of extreme weather (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Climate change: Europe's melting glaciers (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Stanley Tucci Explores Lombardy | Tucci in Italy (44 min, National Geographic)
• Greek Islands | Europe from Above (44 min, National Geographic)
• Europe's drug mafia (2/2) - The weakness of states (44 min, DW Documentary)
• Democracy under threat? The rise of the far-right in Germany (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Rich and poor - The growing wealth gap in Germany (37 min, DW Documentary)
• Germany's role in NATO and the world (43 min, DW Documentary)
• Will Germany's car industry survive? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Slaves in Italy? (29 min, DW Documentary)
• Germany's Enemy Within (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Germany's Neo-Nazis & the Far Right (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Newly Discovered DNA: What Did The Ancient Europeans Look Like? (51 min, Odyssey)
• The Afro-Cypriot | The Afro-European (4/6) (45 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Can Norway’s wild salmon be saved? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• 2.6 Million Gallons: Building The Largest Mega-Aquarium In Europe | Nausicaá (50 min, Spark)
• Norway is Building The World's Deepest Mega-Tunnel (30 min, The B1M)
• The Nazi's Grasp for Power | Germany's Fatal Attraction: Part 2 (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Ireland's $27BN Plan to (Finally) Catch Up With Europe (18 min, The B1M)
• Inside Sweden’s High School for Skateboarders | Post Radical Episode 1 (43 min, VICE)
• How strong is democracy in Germany? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Cold War relics - East Germany’s underground secrets (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Leaving the ultra-orthodox – Jews seeking a new life in Germany (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Wind power getting headwind in Germany (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany (99 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Hitler's Legacy of Death | Germany's Fatal Attraction: Part 3 (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Europe's Great Wilderness | Episode 3: Europe's Living Waters (52 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Central Sweden - A Trip to the Country and its People (43 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• World’s Most Dangerous Roads | Norway: On Frozen Roads (52 min, Free Documentary)
• World’s Most Dangerous Roads | Eastern Europe: The Adriatic Highway (43 min, Free Documentary)
• Discovering Swiss Secret Bunkers & Flooded Passages in France | Mystery Places (52 min, Free Documentary)
• The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel (28 min, The B1M)
• Unmasking Hezbollah - Money laundering in Europe (3/3) (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Cyberattacks, sabotage, drones - Is Germany ready for war? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Spain - Water scarcity in a vacation paradise (43 min, DW Documentary)
• The 2011 Norway Attacks: Survivors' Stories (51 min, Real Stories)
• Six Years Under Hitler: The Story Of The Polish Resistance | Europe's Secret Armies (47 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• What became of the riches of East Germany's socialist party? (102 min, DW Documentary)
• How teens are recruited by criminal networks (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Germany’s rivers are dying - Pollution, extinction and the fight for clean water (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Gas from Africa - Europe’s search for new suppliers (51 min, DW Documentary)
• Germany’s skilled labor shortage - The international search for workers (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Corona in Italy (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in Europe (53 min, ENDEVR)
• Battlefield - Great Battles of WWII | Episode 2: Air War Over Germany | FD History (105 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Norway's Most Tragic Day: 15 Years After the Utøya Massacre (51 min, Real Stories)
• The Cataclysmic Megaflood That Formed Modern Europe (52 min, Spark)
• Inside Europe's $1BN Abandoned Mega Build (17 min, The B1M)
• AfD co-leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine, migration and Germany’s future (60 min, The Economist)
• Europe's off the Rails (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Sri Lankan Tamils In Paris: Little Jaffna In The Heart Of France | The New Locals - Part 2/8 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Germany: Violence against women - Causes, consequences and ways forward (19 min, DW Documentary)
• Italy's right-wing government: Policies against rainbow families (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The return of vultures to Europe (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Scholars claim Alexander bronze in Greece restitution deal to be a fake (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Europe’s toughest dogsled race (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Europe’s Most Dangerous Party Destination? (46 min, ENDEVR)
• Europe's Deadliest Roads | Poland, Bulgaria & Spain (158 min, Free Documentary)
• Amazing Quest: Stories from Norway | Somewhere on Earth: Norway (52 min, Free Documentary)
• The War That Nearly Eradicated Ancient Greece | Line of Fire (50 min, Odyssey)

Top-Rated Books About Europe

1. Postwar by Tony Judt (3.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Europeans by Orlando Figes - View on Amazon
3. Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
4. Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum - View on Amazon
5. Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder - View on Amazon
6. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
7. The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder - View on Amazon
9. A history of modern Europe by John M. Merriman - View on Amazon
10. Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand - View on Amazon
11. The strange death of Europe by Douglas Murray - View on Amazon
12. Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum - View on Amazon
13. Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower - View on Amazon
14. Medieval Europe by C. Warren (Charles Warren) Hollister - View on Amazon
15. Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin - View on Amazon