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Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

In this documentary, Joachim Hellwig uses partly unpublished footage to shed light on a dark chapter of German history and shows the entanglements...

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly...

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of...

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her...

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This...

At the end of the 1980s, a film team is about to visit Lukas Wolf, Friedrich Wolf's eldest son, who lives in the state of New York, USA. They carry...

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

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited...

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which...

Scenes of everyday life in South Africa which give an idea of the daily racism in this country.

“We no longer stand before a choice between peace and war, but between peace and annihilation (Brecht 1947)”, one of the posters in the...

The central song and dance ensemble of the Soviet military stationed in East Germany goes on a tour of the country. The dancers and musicians talk...

Documentary film

The enjoyment of life between the construction site and the caravans is not as cultured, as the officially ordered leisure time was supposed to be.