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 the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...

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

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

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

It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Net...
The documentary shows historical film footage from the workers' and farmers' faculties (ABF) of the ...

The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. A...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

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...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of ...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was est...
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the cl...

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...

Interview with Jochen Girke, a retired East German Stasi agent, filmed March, 1990 to June, 1991. Qu...