The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and...
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, esp...
Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 ...
Life in the GDR was not only documented on behalf of the state, but also by photographic artists and...
Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
Portrait of the spokesman of the student movement and extra-parliamentary opposition Rudi Dutschke, ...
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of polic...
A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...
When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...
Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at t...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...