Movies

A biographical documentary about Ernst Thälmann.

Sportivnyy prazdnik molodyozhi (Youth Sports Festival) (1951) is an East German sports documentary co-directed by Andrew Thorndike and Dmitri...

Alle Ideen beginnen als Traum (All Ideas Begin as a Dream) (1987) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie Thorndike. The film follows...

Members of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) dive in the blue Adriatic. During their dives to depths of up to 45 meters, they experience the...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably...

Short film about the naval training in the GDR.

Shortly before the end of WWII, two young soldiers were murdered directly behind Goethe's garden house in Weimar. The place where our greatest German...

Three international students write letters home about their time in East Germany. Antonio Dega, a Cuban studying shipbuilding, writes home about the...

Scenes of everyday life in South Africa which give an idea of the daily racism in this country.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works,...

Die Prüfung (The Examination) (1952) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike. Running at approximately 35 minutes, the film...

The married couple Angelika and Horst Butter sum up successes and setbacks of their joint amateur filmmaking. They now produce elaborate puppet...