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...

„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...

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

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...
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...

In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. Its...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

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

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

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 ...