| Movie | 2021 | Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà | | |
| Movie | 2013 | Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible | Himself | |
| Movie | 2001 | Là-Haut, Un supplément d'âme | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Denis Urubko - My Own Way | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1990 | Lhotse - l'anno nero del serpente | | |
| Movie | 2015 | Simone Moro, I-View | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Dark Glow of the Mountain | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Messner | Self | |
| Movie | 1978 | Everest Unmasked | Self | |
| Movie | N/A | Viktor & I: An Alexander Vesely Film | Reinhold Messner | |
| Movie | 1991 | Galahad of Everest | Self | |
| Movie | 1985 | Niemanns Zeit - Ein deutscher Heimatfilm | Himself | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Last Expedition | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Dream Line | Reinhold Messner | |
| Movie | 2012 | Walter Bonatti, King of the Alps | Reinhold Messner | |
| Movie | 2013 | High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 | Self | |
| Movie | N/A | Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend | Himself | |
| Movie | 2011 | Art of Freedom | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | Reinhold Messner - Il quindicesimo 8000 | | |
| Movie | 2009 | Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Yeti: Myth, Man or Beast? | Himself | |
| Movie | 2018 | Manaslu: Mountain of Souls | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Still Alive - Dramma Sul Monte Kenya | | |
| Movie | 2019 | Fine Lines | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Holy Mountain | | |
| Movie | 2017 | Peter Habeler: ... ich will die Welt von oben sehen | | |
| Movie | 2021 | The Alpinist | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Nanga Parbat - Mein Schlüsselberg | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Kukuczka | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Jurek | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Die große Zinne - 150 Jahre Kletterkunst | | |
| Movie | 1999 | Everest At Any Cost | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | N/A | Il Cervino. La montagna perfetta | | |
| Movie | 2014 | David Lama - Off Limits On Rock and Ice | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood | Self | |
| TV Show | 1979 | Okay | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Markus Lanz | Self | 9 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Leute | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Nachtlinie | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Bergwelten | | 232 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Stars in the Ring | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Die Harald Schmidt Show | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Lafer! Lichter! Lecker! | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Terra X History | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Reinhold Messner - Heimat. Berge. Abenteuer. | Self | 5 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Inas Nacht | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Gaia Symphony | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Leute heute | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Wer weiß denn sowas? | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Bergheimat | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Messners Himalaya | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Privat bei … | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Messners Alpen | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2016 | nacht:sicht | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Verstehen Sie Spaß? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Musikalische Reise | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1948 | Bambi-Verleihung | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Reinhold Beckmann trifft | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Reinhold Messner – Zwischen Himmel und Erde | Self | 26 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Romy Award | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | RTL-Spendenmarathon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | DAS! | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Markus Lanz | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Meine Achttausender – Reinhold Messner | | 3 |
| TV Show | 1986 | ZDF-Fernsehgarten | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Volle Kanne | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2014 | SPIEGEL TV Porträt | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | 3 nach 9 | Self | 5 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Through the Homeland of Ice and Storms | Self - Expedition Member / Portrait Subject | 3 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Der Sonntags-Stammtisch | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Menschen bei Maischberger | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1998 | The Johannes B. Kerner Show | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Menschen der Woche | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Kölner Treff | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Tietjen und Bommes | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Nachtcafé | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Die große Terra X-Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Münchner Runde | | 2 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Stöckl | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Sabine Christiansen | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Alpha Forum | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | DAS! | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 1999 | maybrit illner | Self | 5 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Wohnungen der Götter | Self | 9 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Phoenix Runde | himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Österreich-Bild | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Music & Guests | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Beckmann | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Hart aber fair | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Wortwechsel | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Aeschbacher | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Nachtstudio | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Weimarer Salon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | live - die ZDF-talkshow | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Der Meisterfälscher | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Gero von Boehm begegnet... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Leute am Donnerstag | himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Talk im Hangar-7 | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett | himself | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Bergwelten | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Was wurde aus...? | himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Sternstunden | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Kein schöner Land | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Litera-Tour | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Club 2 | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Fröhlich lesen | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Erlesen | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Abendschau | self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Thadeusz | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Kulturzeit | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | Das aktuelle Sportstudio | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Im Dialog | self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Heut' abend | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Gipfeltreffen | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Riverboat | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Morgenmagazin | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Bergwelten | Bergsteiger | 1 |
