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.

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

An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...

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...

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

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

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...
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the cl...

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

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

The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. A...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...
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 night of November 8, 1923, is arguably the most significant and transformative in the history of...
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...