The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing...
In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
The night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...
Hard, harder, hardest! This film orders you from the start to turn up the volume and pay attention. ...
The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...
Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative p...
It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jew...
Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobil...
The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...