Erich Honecker

Tagesschau

German daily news program, the oldest still existing program on German television.

Terra X History

The spectrum of topics ranges from political history with a focus on contemporary history (especially National...

Days That Shook the World

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September...

Fatal News

West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and M...

Kommunist

Everything's a Lie

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their succ...

Waiting for Fidel

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome ho...

Stasi: A State Against Its People

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political po...

Die Sekretäre

The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession,...

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Soci...

This Ain't California

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust fo...

Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.

Karl Marx und seine Erben

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In...

Republic of Zambia

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Manöver Waffenbrüderschaft

Documentary about a military manoever involving all the armies of the Warsaw Pact.

Der Maler Willi Sitte - Ein Leben zwischen Kunst und Politik

Stasi FC

Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder, and manip...

102 Berlin - Palast der Republik

Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung

Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred bu...

Who Loves the Earth

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer...

Martin Luther

Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the cont...

Das Ende der NVA - Wie die Bundeswehr die DDR Volksarmee übernahm

Honeckers letzte Reise

25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the...

Return to Dresden

In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresd...

Palast der Republik – Haus des Volkes

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

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