Movies

This film describes a yearning for beauty and gentleness. The philosopher Lothar Kühne was especially concerned with how we live and build. He...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

Short film about the importance of sport in the GDR

On the necessity of safety measures on the workplace.

Wheelus Air Base was once the largest American air base outside the USA itself. Ordered to be cleared by June 30th, 1970 by Libya’s...

A cowardly king becomes dependent on an evil prince who desires the king's daughter as his wife. As the princess does not want to marry, she is...

A beautiful seagull is injured during a storm, ends up in a forest and joins a family of woodpeckers. She is rejected by the older members, but the...

GDR documentary from the 1980s about the former district of Leipzig. The film goes beyond the city limits of Leipzig and conveys impressions of...

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...

This short puppet-animated film criticizes American toy companies for their militaristic toys and marketing which fosters politically aggressive...

More than two decades ago, a country in Europe existed that marked the border to a different political and economic system, yet was the very heart of...

"Das Jahr 1945" is a documentary which describes the last 128 days of World War II in Europe. The film covers the course of the war in chronological...

East German short documentary

East Berlin disco movie.

This portrait shows Black cartoonist Oliver Harrington from New York, who fled to the GDR. For his political drawings, he drew on worldly anecdotes...

Around 1500, a gentleman enters the barber's shop of a small town. He throws a purse and his dagger on the table and demands in a harsh tone that his...

The GDR has concluded an important agreement with a friendly country in the Middle East, in which it undertakes to supply and install pumping...