Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best ani...

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...

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

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

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

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...

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

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

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

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes...

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...