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 viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

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

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...
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 film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

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 night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of...

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

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

Hard, harder, hardest! This film orders you from the start to turn up the volume and pay attention. ...

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