In September 1983, a sword is forged into a ploughshare in Wittenberg. It is the most spectacular action of the peace movement in the GDR. Its initiator was the Wittenberg theologian Friedrich Schorlemmer.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Ger...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power...

A documentary exploring a crime that shocked Germany in the summer of 1999.

When luxury invited itself to the paradise of socialism... For three decades, East Germany rewarded ...

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East German...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Pol...

Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be...
In the midst of the transition towards reunification and a market economy, two teams meet for the la...

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunif...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-establish...

In 1987, a small film distributor from Frankfurt/Main brings the film "Dirty Dancing" to West German...
The documentary accompanies a group of soccer fans twice on a train ride to a soccer match - first i...