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...

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

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

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

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most el...

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

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

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of ...
The documentary shows historical film footage from the workers' and farmers' faculties (ABF) of the ...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...
Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood the...

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...

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

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