Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a son’s journey into his late father’s past which still remains somewhat mysterious even today. Eric Asch is looking for answers – in the Stasi archives, at the NSA and in his own family history. The result is a very personal documentary which reports ironically about the practices of secret service during the Cold War.
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operatio...
Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and ...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British...
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and de...
In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. The...
Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her fam...
A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Pol...
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
Documentary about the late-era German Democratic Republic
Short film about the GDR (DDR) and the FRG (BRD)
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...
Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...