
In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

On October 10, 2005, Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor. After 16 years, she now wants to clear...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized h...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...