diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50825d3..fc9ac19 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ poetry run uvicorn fdhview.main:app --reload
 
 ## Endpoints
 
-* GET `/admin` - upload form protected with Basic Auth.
+* GET `/admin` - upload form protected with Basic Auth
 * POST `/admin/upload` - upload endpoint protected with Basic Auth
+* GET `/health` - Health check endpoint
 * GET `/info` - serves desk info endpoint
 * GET `/api/screenings` - serves JSON with upcoming 10 films for today
 * GET `/api/screenings/prices` - serves JSON with pricing data
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 65b151e..4864e1b 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -5,5 +5,11 @@ services:
       dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
     ports:
       - "8000:8000"
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/health"]
+      interval: 30s
+      timeout: 10s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 40s
     environment:
       SQL_FILE_NAME: ${SQL_FILE_NAME:-/data/app.db}
diff --git a/fdhview/api/health.py b/fdhview/api/health.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..491b76c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fdhview/api/health.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from fastapi import APIRouter, status
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+router = APIRouter(
+    prefix="/health",
+    tags=["Health"]
+)
+
+
+class HealthCheck(BaseModel):
+    """Response model to validate and return when performing a health check."""
+
+    status: str = "OK"
+
+
+@router.get(
+    "/",
+    tags=["healthcheck"],
+    summary="Perform a Health Check",
+    response_description="Return HTTP Status Code 200 (OK)",
+    status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK,
+    response_model=HealthCheck,
+)
+def get_health() -> HealthCheck:
+    """
+    ## Perform a Health Check
+    Endpoint to perform a healthcheck on. This endpoint can primarily be used Docker
+    to ensure a robust container orchestration and management is in place. Other
+    services which rely on proper functioning of the API service will not deploy if this
+    endpoint returns any other HTTP status code except 200 (OK).
+    Returns:
+        HealthCheck: Returns a JSON response with the health status
+    """
+    return HealthCheck(status="OK")
diff --git a/fdhview/main.py b/fdhview/main.py
index 946ca52..92547c1 100644
--- a/fdhview/main.py
+++ b/fdhview/main.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from fastapi import FastAPI
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 
 from fdhview.api.admin import router as admin_router
+from fdhview.api.health import router as health_router
 from fdhview.api.info import router as info_router
 from fdhview.api.screenings import router as screenings_router
 from fdhview.core.database import init_db
@@ -27,5 +28,6 @@ BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory=BASE_DIR / "static"), name="static")
 
 app.include_router(admin_router)
-app.include_router(screenings_router, prefix="/api")
+app.include_router(health_router)
 app.include_router(info_router)
+app.include_router(screenings_router, prefix="/api")
diff --git a/tests/test_health.py b/tests/test_health.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f54628c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_health.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Filmhuis Den Haag
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+def test_health(client: TestClient):
+    response = client.get("/health")
+    assert response.status_code == 200