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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

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...

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

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

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

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was est...
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 ...