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.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Spy Capital is a documentary exploring Vienna's deep-rooted espionage history, establishing the city...
This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried a...
Fidel Castro employed a vast spy network that helped him remain in power.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and ...
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...
Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of ...
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physician...
During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...