"Weimar" was the first democracy on German soil. It was a new beginning full of emotion and hope - in difficult times. Weimar is often viewed from the end, from its downfall under National Socialism. Yet it was a great new beginning. The Germans dared to embrace democracy. A documentary as a lively discussion about Weimar. What can Weimar teach us today?

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

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the di...

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungr...

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the ...

Presents a unique and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The documentary, directed by Lu...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent mo...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu...

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremi...

Historic UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, are evoked through memory, report and gesture.

After Awesome Tapes From Africa's Brian Shimkovitz found the energetic, ecstatic music of Ghanaian m...

Deconstructing Supper is a ride every contemporary eater will want to take, a thought-provoking and ...

Anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz explores the mysteries of death.

Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral iss...