Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades - sorting through rubble. After a retirement party thrown for her by her male colleagues, she tells her story of being a rubble-woman in post-war Germany.

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Between February 4 and 11, 1945, three months before World War II ended in Europe, US President Roos...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that wa...


The sinking of the German fleet interned at Scapa-Flow (Orkney Islands), June 21, 1919. We know that...

This interactive infographic short documentary examines the human losses of the Second World War bet...
This first-person documentary provides an inside look into the terrifying and bloody events that sho...

In her autobiographical documentary, the young director uses cartoon impressions, photographic memor...

A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The w...

A colorful travelogue of London's most historic buildings and the residual damage still left from WW...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...

Shot in Munich just a few weeks after it was taken by the American troops on April 30, 1945.

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...
The Truth That Wasn't There is an award-winning documentary about three student filmmakers who cross...

Between 1993 and 1995, artist and photographer Louis Jammes took pictures of people on the streets o...

A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photograph...