After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...

Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down h...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physician...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...

The series will be discussed how the Yugoslav secret service methods mimicked the NKVD, about 2 mill...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Four siblings, whose father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childho...

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black came...

The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they ca...

Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...