page_title: Wacken Open Air
section_title: Documentaries
hierarchical_section_title: Wacken Open Air / Documentaries and reception   / Media / Documentaries
caption_attribution_description: Ein Silo in Wacken, 2011 war er noch weiss gestrichen.
context_page_description: Wacken Open Air is a heavy metal music festival, held annually since 1990 on the first weekend of August in the town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Almost all styles of hard rock and metal are represented. It is now one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world and one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany. Between 2011–2018, the number of attendees was around 85,000, 75,000 of whom were paying visitors. In 2020, the festival was scheduled to take place from 30 July to 1 August, but was canceled due to a ban on large public events in Germany due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
context_section_description: German television has produced numerous Wacken Open-Air documentaries in recent years. The following list is therefore not complete:
  Metalheads, documentary on the 10th anniversary of Wacken Open Air (director: Thomas Greiner)
  Nordland, documentary on the 15th anniversary of Wacken Open Air (director: Thomas Greiner (author))
  Full Metal Village, 2006 (Director: Cho Sung-Hyung)
  Ein Dorf im Ausnahmezustand - A village in a state of emergency / Three days of Wacken - Bauernschlau und Heavy-Metal, 2006 (film by Petra Petersen, NDR)
  Rockpalast (WDR), Festival Wacken-Open-Air, 2006, 2007 and 2009, each approx. 2 h documentary, can be downloaded free of charge in the media library of the public broadcaster (as of February 2016)
  Wahnsinn Wacken, 2007 (DMAX) approx. 1 h documentary
  Ein Dorf und 100.000 Rockfans, 2008 (ZDF)
  Metaller die auf Brüste starren, 2010
  Road To Wacken - The Movie, 2011
  Heavy Metal auf der Wiese, 2011 (NDR) (Director: Manfred Studer)
  Heavy Metal trifft Karniggels - Detlev Buck goes Wacken, 2012 (NDR) (Director: Nils Utzig)
  Heiter, harder, louder, 2013 (NDR) (Director: Nils Utzig)
  Alles auf Schwarz – Wacken!!! Sarnau und Hübner bei den Metalheads, 2013 (NDR) (Director: Nils Utzig)
  Wacken 3D, 2014 (Director: Norbert Heitker) - also in 2D.
  25 Years Louder Than Hell - The W:O:A Documentary, Jun 2015, DVD and Blu-ray, 3 Eps. 45 min, 1 h 5 min, 42 min, original sound: German, English, and Spanish with subtitles in German, English.
  Road To Wacken, 2016 (DMAX) - two-part documentary (45 min each) about the band Blind Guardian, who plan, prepare and perform their set at W:O:A, as well as the festival itself, its visitors, the village of Wacken and its inhabitants.
  Welcome to Wacken - A Documentary Film in Virtual Reality, Jul 2017 (Director: Sam Dunn), °360 VR Film in English in five parts, with animations of the festival area.[87][88]
  Der Wacken-Wahnsinn, Wie geht das? NDR Television, August 2018
caption: The highly-visible silo of Raiffeisenhauptgenossenschaft in 2013
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