Movies

A little boy is supposed to take the trash can and the ashes to the basement. His friends are already waiting for him. They are already standing on...

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...

In the spring of 1965, Polish citizen Sheybal visits the town of Genthin. He knows his way around the sugar factory. He had to work there as a...

The 15th "Paul Hornick" Tank Regiment Cottbus, a unit of the "Heinrich Rau" Air Wing in Trollenhagen and the People's Navy are presented. In addition...

Father's behavior towards his fellow human beings is thoughtless and without consideration. But when he gets into a difficult situation, the...

The film by Uwe Belz shows Krug in his major roles in films, as a performer as a jazz singer, and as a private person.

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...

The film shows the flag handover and swearing-in ceremony of the first unit of the National People's Army on the eve of May 1, 1956 and the parade of...

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

With ZUG UM ZUG Barthel creates an amusing as well as bitingly macabre image-sound collage about the negative effects of smoking.

Gathering in Thüringen for their annual rehearsal camp, music students from Frankfurt (Oder) and Zielona Gora celebrate the German-Polish...

On the necessity of safety measures on the workplace.

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

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

Grand Central Station, New York - the town's landmark. The camera captures impressions within 24 hours.

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

This color documentary reports on young Chilean pioneers in the capital of the GDR. We experience the development of their pioneer newspaper from the...

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the...

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

Holidays in colony (in Thuringia and on the Baltic) of the children of workers of a chemical industry in the DDR.