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...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

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

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face o...
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best ani...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the divisi...

“Liberty Train – Bürger’s Long Journey” sheds light on the events of the PEACEFUL REVOLUTION of 1989...

Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.

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

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

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

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

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