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...

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...

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

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...

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

The mineral oil tax and its use are taken as an opportunity to examine the topics of road constructi...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...

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...

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

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of ...

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

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

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.