October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who beca...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Vijay runs a small business and is also a master thief who is wanted by the cops. But, his motive fo...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement...

Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents af...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor...

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, an...

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young...