Codename Pirate

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in...

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

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

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

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...

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...

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany's terrifying secret police force from 1933 through 1945.

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the...