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.

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....

„I began documenting their lives, if only because I hoped each film would have a happy ending.“ (Ger...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...
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...

Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobil...
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the cl...
In the midst of the transition towards reunification and a market economy, two teams meet for the la...

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

The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential go...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Pol...