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...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important G...

Is the solution to Switzerland's future to integrate Germany into the confederation? After all, like...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

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

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and ...

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...

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

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W...

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in...

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