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

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

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades -...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...

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...