Black Box BRD is a 2001 German documentary film written and directed by Andres Veiel.

The film deals with West German politics of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by turmoil and the highly publicized activities of the left-wing terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction (RAF).

[1] The film focuses on the lives and deaths of Alfred Herrhausen, a prominent banker and chairman of the Deutsche Bank who was assassinated in 1989, and Wolfgang Grams, member of RAF who was a suspect in the attack on Herrhausen and who later shot himself in the head while being chased by the German police in 1993.

A number of relatives, friends, and colleagues of both men were interviewed for the film.

[2] In the United States the film was shown on PBS, retitled as Black Box Germany.