Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics, life and work.
Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry function...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insigh...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consumin...
This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...
Explration of today’s East German identity, shaped by history, hopes, and upheaval. Through multimed...
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and de...
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve ...