"Fahrenheit 9/11", an anti-Bush administration documentary directed by American film maker Michael Moore, was shown Thursday at 200 cinemas across Germany.

This is the widest premiere for a documentary film in German cinematic history and is expected to break box-office records for documentaries in Germany, reported DPA, the German press agency.

Moore, who won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was very popular in Germany, where sentiment against American unilateralism characterized by the Bush Administration was high.

The German-language version of Moore's book "Stupid White Men,"sold nearly 1.1 million copies, comprising one-third of the book's total global sales.

More than 1 million Germans turned out to see his Oscar-winning indictment against US gun laws, "Bowling for Columbine", the box-office record so far for a documentary film in Germany, DPA said.