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.

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

The mineral oil tax and its use are taken as an opportunity to examine the topics of road constructi...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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...
TV-Documentary on German history

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

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.
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...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

Prejudices, ignorance, and racism still leave their mark on the everyday life of black Germans, resp...

The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. A...

The night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

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