When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film images, but also some of the timeless melodies that were created in Babelsberg.

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...

Hard, harder, hardest! This film orders you from the start to turn up the volume and pay attention. ...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...

At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while ...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of...

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR...

In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. It'...

Documentary about the life in the then newly completed city Halle Neustadt in the former DDR in East...

The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. A...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understan...

Life in the GDR was not only documented on behalf of the state, but also by photographic artists and...

A punk documentary about the life and death of the GDR punk Dieter "Otze" Ehrlich and his band Schle...