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...

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

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

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

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

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

In 1946, just after the end of World War II, a secret organization of Holocaust survivors plans a te...
Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood the...

Hard, harder, hardest! This film orders you from the start to turn up the volume and pay attention. ...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...

It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jew...