Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock

Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock is a trilogy of feature-length documentaries about progressive music written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. RW4 focuses on the progressive rock music from Germany popularly known as Krautrock, although the integration of Krautrock into the progressive rock genre is a purely American notion. In Europe, the conventional wisdom is that Krautrock can be considered at most as the connection between psychedelic rock and progressive rock. The term "Krautrock" was applied after-the-fact by British journalists, and in fact the German bands share very few similarities.

Part 1 deals with bands from the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany, including Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Floh de Cologne, Faust, Damo Suzuki's Network, Krautwerk, Japandorf, Electric Orange, Wume, and LA Düsseldorf. Part 2 focuses on bands from Munich, Wiesbaden, Ulm, and Heidelberg (including Guru Guru, Amon Düül II, Xhol Caravan, Kraan, Popol Vuh, Witthüser & Westrupp). Part 3 focuses on bands from Berlin and Hamburg (including Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Günter Schickert, Agitation Free, Conrad Schnitzler, A.R. & Machines, Nektar, as well as the jazz-rock band Embryo from Munich.

The first DVD was completed with the aid of an Indiegogo campaign in 2018. The second followed the same funding model in 2020.