Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...

Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilizatio...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

Documentary about the life in Berlin in 1941. The planned premier was stopped by the national party ...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich...

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

With aerial shots filmed from helicopters and drones, moments of life and encounters, this abundant ...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

A documentary following the day life of fans in Brazil on July 13, 2014: the day when Germany and Ar...

The AfD, founded in 2013, is a right-wing party that has become increasingly radicalized in recent y...
The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.