The Weimar Republic came to bear for many the humiliation of World War I and the blame for all its accompanying hardships. Despite a few years of stability, the Weimar Republic faced issues such as hyperinflation and the Great Depression, which drove many Germans into the arms of radical and extremist political parties. From this political uncertainty rose a demigod, an unexpected leader who promised to revive Germany to the powerful country it once was. Adolf Hitler converted democracy into a dictatorship, causing the fall of the Weimar Republic.
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictato...
In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the di...
One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love stor...
In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, esp...
Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, ...
A lighthearted psychodrama about mommy issues and Hillary Clinton.
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol...
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend throug...
Year 1917. Young doctor Valentin Voyno-Yasenetskyj with his wife and four children moved to Tashkent...
In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern p...
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America...