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.

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

This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third...

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

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

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

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...

Loitz is one of those former GDR towns that still suffer from the effects of German reunification. F...
Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.

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

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

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

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

"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst B...

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

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

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

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 ...

Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be...