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

„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...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

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

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

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...
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the cl...

The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential go...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobil...