Movies

Short film intended for the mobilization of NVA units to secure the state border in Berlin on 13 August 1961.

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

Shortly after the construction of the wall in August 1961, many guests visit the East German army troops who protect the wall.

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

Unternehmen Teutonenschwert (Operation Teutonic Sword) (1958) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. The film...

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to...

The bird moves to the south in autumn and sings his most beautiful song to the lion there. When he flies back to the north, the lion sets off on the...

In 1980, Wolfgang E. Struck, artistic director of the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, wistfully considers the imminent demolition of his house due to...

Puppet animated film based on a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate aftermath: the harsh repression of left-wing...

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

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

Dialogue between children from Kampuchea who talk about their terrible experiences during the Pol Pot regime and pupils from Erfurt, Arnstadt and...

East German short film

The camera is ready for the perfect shot! The bus driver pays special attention when he notices the camera. But the cameraman is actually waiting for...

“We no longer stand before a choice between peace and war, but between peace and annihilation (Brecht 1947)”, one of the posters in the...

Documentary film

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is...