August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep going.

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the po...

In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization,...

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career toge...

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from ev...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. Bu...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...