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

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...

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

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

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

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 -...

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

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

Vacation in Sylt is a black and white compilation film about Heinz Reinefarth, a Nazi Party member, high SS police leader of Warthe, and later mayor...

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