Movies

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

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

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

A portrait of the Islamic Museum in Berlin, now the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. One of its most famous exhibits is the Jordanian...

Short film about the production of artificial leather

Short film about the naval training in the GDR.

East German short documentary

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

The GDR is disarming and NVA tanks and aircraft are being scrapped. Members of the army have their say.

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

1971 documentary about the concentration camp Sachsenhausen commissioned for the National Memorial and Monument Sachsenhausen (GDR).

Documentary about the concentration camp Buchenwald.

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,...

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany tries to poach the musicians of the...

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

All sorts of shenanigans happen at the East German army's recreation home.

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

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

A fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.