Movies

Follows the migration voyages of eels.

This is the second installment in the Disco Film series to feature the Puhdys, a popular East German rock band. Their songs "Sturmvogel" ("Petrel")...

A documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.

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

East German short documentary

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

Chile 1985, the repression of the Chilean people by the dictatorship and the resistance, accompanied by the music of the exiled composer Angel Parra.

DEFA documentary in honor of the 750th birthday of the city of Berlin.

Kollwitzplatz, Prenzlauer Berg: Children are playing and climbing all over the monument to Käthe Kollwitz, frowning adults are watching them....

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...

Salvador Allende’s last radio speech is given in full; nothing is interposed. The translation of the speech appears in subtitles, individual...

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a...

Ev and Peter fall in love at first sight. Peter studies dentistry in Leipzig and is eager to work in the country. There is an unfilled dentist...

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in...

A mother tells her demanding little boy a story to make him fall asleep.

On the necessity of safety measures on the workplace.

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

Report on the conflicts around the People's Republic of Kampuchea