Stasi Movies

East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape that could go either way...

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is turned upside down as she must justify her...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The...

Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with...

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s...

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a...

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be...

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside...

At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial employees" of the State Security. They were...

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate...