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Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Documentary short about the construction of the Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant in East Germany.

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

Grand Central Station, New York - the town's landmark. The camera captures impressions within 24 hours.

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

The Prenzlauer Berg district in the former East Berlin was a particularly intense example of the "short summer of anarchy" on the heels of the fall...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town...

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...