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.

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

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

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

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in ...

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

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

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...
Citizens of East Germany talk about their experiences and feelings in the face of upcoming elections...

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

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

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

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...

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

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...

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