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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...

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,...

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

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

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

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

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

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...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship...

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

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

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...

The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at...

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Documenting the rebuilding of Potsdam one year after the war under Soviet supervision.