Movies

An enumeration of various ways by which the public might react to a film projection.

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

A raven wishes to be an eagle and he imitates the proud bird. But when the eagle is punished because he killed a sheep, the raven has second thoughts.

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Die Novemberrevolution 1918 (The November Revolution 1918) (1956) is a short East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the...

The plot takes viewers to various places in Europe, including Prague, Erfurt, Frankfurt/Main and even Tenerife. And the title "The Blonde Geisha"...

Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.

In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.

Presentation of the economic upswing in the GDR, emphasizing the discovery of the process for the production of high-temperature lignite coke and the...

Dammbeck relocates the Leipzig-based artists' circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland, which in 1929 was the venue of the...

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

An attempt to illustrate quotes by Karl Marx using seemingly unrelated black-and-white photographs that depict the history of the working class and...

The documentary tells the story of Anke, Birgit and Katrin, who are training to become cattle breeders and graduate from high school. During this...

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to...

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

'Traumlos?' sheds light on future plans of three teenagers and young adults in a Brandenburg village. Realized shortly before the fall of the Wall,...