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

„I began documenting their lives, if only because I hoped each film would have a happy ending.“ (Ger...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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....

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

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

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...

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

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

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

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

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

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

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

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