Transit Film GmbH is a German film licensing company located in Munich. The company licenses film documents held by the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), as well as its own filmstock.

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Transit Film was founded on January 18, 1966 as a federally owned GmbH.^{[citation needed]} For decades, Transit Film has been licensing film documents held by the German Federal Archives.^{[citation needed]} Transit Film also acted as a trustee for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation/Wiesbaden until the end of 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Transit Film is exclusively appointed to manage the worldwide commercial exploitation of films belonging to the German Federal Archives.^{[citation needed]} For decades, Transit Film has been dealing with material from the beginnings of film making up to the end of World War II in 1945.^{[citation needed]} This film stock consists of silent and sound newsreels and documentary films.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1.1.2014 Transit Film has also been appointed to make accessible and to exploit commercially German Federal Archives newsreels and documentaries from 1945 onwards.^{[citation needed]} An internet platform with digitised films has been established in cooperation with the German Federal Archives.^{[citation needed]} The internet platform allows the user to view, research and order historical footage and serves Film, TV and Press professionals and the public.^[1]

Transit Film also exploits its own film catalogue consisting of German feature films. Amongst those are classics such as Cat and Mouse [de] (1967), The Bread of Those Early Years (1962) and Genosse Münchhausen [de] (1962).^{[citation needed]}