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.

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 ...

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

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

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

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

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...
In reunified Berlin, a city guide from the Eastern part of the city offers tours for West Berliners ...

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

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

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

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...
Citizens of East Germany talk about their experiences and feelings in the face of upcoming elections...
Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.

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