After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a breath of fresh air for many but in the chaos leading up to reunification with West Germany, the experience was also disconcerting.

Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police s...

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teena...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

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

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

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a ...

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can lo...

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

East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this...

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