At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from times gone by.

In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. It'...

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

„I began documenting their lives, if only because I hoped each film would have a happy ending.“ (Ger...

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

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

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

The night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of...

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

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jew...