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.

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

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

It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Net...

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

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

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...

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

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of ...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...

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

It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jew...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...
Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood the...
The documentary shows historical film footage from the workers' and farmers' faculties (ABF) of the ...

Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative p...