Krucke
Rating: N/A. Year: 1993.
Description: Losing his mother to WW2, 13-year-old Tom visits his aunt but finds her missing. Not knowing what to do, he is befriended by Krücke, a one-legged war veteran, and finds shelter with a Jewish woman who sells alcohol to the Allied soldiers.
Helden Wie Wir
Rating: N/A. Year: 1999.
Description: Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults who caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Die Stille Nach Dem Schuss
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German reunification.
Schtonk!
Rating: N/A. Year: 1992.
Description: The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.
Rosenstrasse
Rating: PG-13. Year: 2003.
Description: After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.
The Lives of Others
Rating: R. Year: 2006.
Description: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Rating: R. Year: 1975.
Description: A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
Deutschland im Herbst
Rating: N/A. Year: 1978.
Description: Through a mix of documentary footage and directed movie clips, the film tells a stroy of a kidnapping of a business man by the Red Army Faction in 1970s Germany.
The Edukators
Rating: R. Year: 2004.
Description: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Spur Der Steine
Rating: N/A. Year: 1966.
Description: A film about living and working conditions in the German Democratic Republic of the 60's.
Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (two copies)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1955.
Description: The second part of the Ernst Thaelmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thaelmann's murder in 1944.
So weit die Füße tragen
Rating: TV-G. Year: 2001.
Description: At the end of WW2, a German POW doing hard labor in the Soviet Gulag escapes from his Siberian camp to return to Germany but he's pursued by a Soviet NKVD officer.
Downfall
Rating: R. Year: 2004.
Description: Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Schlafes Bruder
Rating: R. Year: 1995.
Description: The film tells the story of musician Elias Alder, who brought his life to an end at the age of 22 having decided not to sleep any more. In a mountain village isolated from the world, the fate is fulfilled of a man mortally afflicted by a musical genius which prevents him from following the beating of his heart and settling for happiness with the woman whom he loves more than his own life.
Kleider machen Leute
Rating: N/A. Year: 1940.
Description: Wenzel a penniless tailor of Seldwyla who - because of the luxurious suit he has made for himself - is mistaken for a young lord when arriving at the Swiss town of Goldach. The tailor is feted by the townsfolk and attracts the attention of a high-born young woman, Nettchen.
Sonnenallee
Rating: N/A. Year: 1999.
Description: A group of kids grow up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life in East Germany.
Die Feuerzangenbowle
Rating: N/A. Year: 1970.
Description: A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil.
Napola - Elite für den Führer
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Lichter
Rating: N/A. Year: 2003.
Description: The film follows the lives of three characters with different needs and motivations who all are struggling with the same problem: Crossing the Polish and German border.
Das Wunder von Bern
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: Amidst the aftermath of the second World War, denazification, and the unrest leading to the Hungarian Revolution, this documentary follows the championship World Cup match between Germany and Hungary in 1954.
Todesspiel
Rating: N/A. Year: 1977.
Description: Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (three copies)
Rating: N/A. Year: 2005.
Description: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Starbuck Holger Meins
Rating: N/A. Year: 2002.
Description: "Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins, the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a young man who died at the age of 33 as a result of a hunger strike in prison.
Mein Kreig
Rating: N/A. Year: 1990.
Description: After finding six German men who took wore cameras during the training and invasion of the USSR in 1942, a documentary filmmaker decides to interview these men about their experiences fighting in WWII.
Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt?
Rating: R. Year: 2001.
Description: 6 anarchists place a time bomb in a West Berlin building in 1987. It's a dud. It blows up in 2000. Only 2 remain anarchists. How can the 6 steal evidence from a police "fortress" and avoid 8 years prison?
Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965.
Description: Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.
Sissi (3 discs)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1955.
Description: Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the young vibrant princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.
Die Simpsons (Complete Season One)
Rating: TV-PG. Year: 1989.
Description: The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
Nirgendwo in Afrika
Rating: R. Year: 2001.
Description: A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Rating: N/A. Year: 1997.
Description: Two terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.
Winter Sleepers
Rating: N/A. Year: 1997.
Description: Setting in a small mountain town, a man, looking for revenge because of his daughter's accidentally killing, mistakenly track out a young couple, troubling with their ordinary life problems.
The Marquise of O (two copies)
Rating: PG. Year: 1976.
Description: A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Stroszek (two copies)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1977.
Description: In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Woyzeck
Rating: N/A. Year: 1979.
Description: Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
The Princess and the Warrior (three copies)
Rating: R. Year: 2000.
Description: Two enamoured strangers look for a warm place in a cold world.
Comedian Harmonists
Rating: R. Year: 1997.
Description: The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
Absolute Giganten
Rating: N/A. Year: 1999.
Description: Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
Momo
Rating: N/A. Year: 1986.
Description: A story about a little girl with the gift of time who saves her town from disaster.
Goodbye Lenin (two copies)
Rating: R. Year: 2003.
Description: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Anonyma Eine Frau in Berlin
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: Heinz Strunk is a young and unemployed musician who lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg. One day he gets the chance to play the sax in a dance band.
Die Welle
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Die Mauer- Berlin '61
Rating: N/A. Year: 2006.
Description: A divided family, an escape attempt and a race against time.
Mein Führer
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: The action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels in the actor-teacher of Jewish concentration camp for lessons eloquence to inspire the German people to further fight.
Zelle
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: In Cologne, Tariq, an inconspicuous Iraqi student, is gathering four men around him. They do not know that he plans a terrorist attack and wants to bomb bombs in the crowded subway.
Nackt Unter Wölfen
Rating: N/A. Year: 1963.
Description: In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Am Ende Kommen Touristen
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: A civil service worker befriends an elderly concentration camp survivor.
Radetzkymarsch
Rating: N/A. Year: 1994.
Description: A former lieutenant and captain of the Slovenian infantry loses faith in his army and country and then forbids his sons and grandsons from ever enlisting. But due to circumstance, one of them finds their way back.
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: A lonely and abandoned wife of a WWII German soldier who is missing in action finds herself hiding a German soldier who strayed away from his mission away from her landlord who is devotedly loyal to the Third Reich.
Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Rating: N/A. Year: 2009.
Description: In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to Poland.
Solo Sunny
Rating: N/A. Year: 1980.
Description: Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.
Berlin is in Germany
Rating: N/A. Year: 1980.
Description: When Martin, a former German Democratic Republic citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German reunification.
The Murderers Are Among Us
Rating: N/A. Year: 1945.
Description: After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
Heimatkunde
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.
Auf der Anderen Seite
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
Leroy
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: Leroy is an Afro-German boy who must also battle with an identity crisis born of the fact that he is both a highly cultured, well-mannered German AND black, thus belonging to two minorities.
Im Juli(2 copies)
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.
Die Dreigroschenoper (The 3 Penny Opera)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1931.
Description: In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.
Das Versprechen
Rating: R. Year: 1994.
Description: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany.
Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot
Rating: N/A. Year: 2006.
Description: After learning of his mother’s death due to his childbirth, young Sebastian journeys to avoid purgatorial punishment by either becoming an immortal rockstar, or finding his father or a wife.
Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Der Fischer und Seine Frau
Rating: N/A. Year: 2005.
Description: Veterinarians Otto and Leo travel Japan looking for fish to buy and sell, while finding love along the way.
September
Rating: N/A. Year: 2003.
Description: The film explores the impact of September 11th 2001 through several fictional episodes intercut with documentary material.
Die schönsten Geschichten von Wilhelm Busch
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: A collection of German children folk songs.
Zwei Tage Hoffnung
Rating: N/A. Year: 2003.
Description: During the 1953 uprising in East Germany, a West Berlin journalist risks his life to enter East Berlin, where his brother and father are in danger.
Der Zimmerspringbrunnen
Rating: N/A. Year: 2001.
Description: The unemployed Hinrich Lobek spends his days at home in Berlin and sees himself as a victim of the German reunification after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Heart of Glass
Rating: N/A. Year: 1976.
Description: The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
Herz
Rating: N/A. Year: 2001.
Description:Heartlets us dive into an elaborate tapestry of tragic and endearing episodes of a group of friends who regularly meet at a Cologne diving school to forget their day-to-day worries in the underwater world.
Deutschland, erwache
Rating: N/A. Year: 1968.
Description: A documentary on the German motion picture of the same name and its use as a propaganda tool during the reign of the Nazi party.
Deutschlandspiel
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: Das Deutschlandspiel is a 2-part German TV movie produced 2000. It tells the story of German reunification. In addition to scenes the protagonists of the unification were interviewed.
The Farewell
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: German playwright Bertold Brecht invites friends, lovers and artistic collaborators to his summer house, where action soon ensues.
Ein Münchner im Himmel
Rating: N/A. Year: 1962.
Description: A Munich in the Sky, is a humorous children’s satire by the Bavarian poet Ludwig Thoma, originally published in 1911.
Nicht alle Waren Mörder
Rating: N/A. Year: 2006.
Description: This movie follows the harsh daily struggles of a Jewish mother and son attempting to survive during the Nazi reign in Germany.
Die Nachrichten
Rating: N/A. Year: 2006.
Description: A journalist from East Germany becomes the anchorman of one of the major television channels, but is soon suspended after rumors emerge about his potential involvement with the Stasi, the East German secret police.
Das Leben Geht Weiter
Rating: N/A. Year: 2002.
Description: The absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich.
Lautlos
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: After being saved from an attempted suicide by the man who was sent to kill her, Nina journeys to find the identity of her savior.
Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: The unorthodox 60-year love story of a couple with the many twists and turns that come along with post-war life.
Schwaben-Kinder
Rating: N/A. Year: 2003.
Description: A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.
Heldenplatz
Rating: N/A. Year: 1989.
Description: The family of Josef Schuster, a Jewish university professor, reminisce and confess of the true life of their beloved family member.
Die dritte Generation
Rating: N/A. Year: 1979.
Description: Mogul Peter Lenz merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists form in the 1980s.
Das Mädchen Rosemarie
Rating: N/A. Year: 1996.
Description: Rosemarie Nitribitt comes out of a remand center, runs away from her foster parents and ends up working as a barmaid in a Frankfurt nightclub.
Der Tiger von Eschnapur
Rating: N/A. Year: 1959.
Description: In Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in-love with the same temple dancer.
Sein oder Nichtsein
Rating: N/A. Year: 1942.
Description: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Der Rote Kakadu
Rating: N/A. Year: 2006.
Description: A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
Requiem
Rating: TV-MA. Year: 2006.
Description: An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing.
NVA
Rating: N/A. Year: 2005.
Description: The story of young recruits doing their compulsory military service in the East German army 'NVA' prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Heimat II: Chronicle of a Generation(7 discs)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1992.
Description: The fortunes of the village Schabbach reflect those of Germany from 1960 to 1970.
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
Die Deutschen(10 discs)
Rating: N/A. Year: 2008.
Description: Documentary series about 1,000 years of German history. Reviewing the history from about 955 A.D. to the modern day monarchy and World War I.
Asterix (Operation Hinkelstein, Bei Den Briten, SIEG über Cäsar)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1989, 1986, 1999.
Description: French TV series about Gaulish warriors, who have adventures and fight the Roman Republic during the era of Julius Caesar in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.
Auf Herz und Nieren
Rating: N/A. Year: 2001.
Description: Four buddies and wannabe crooks fail a drug deal. The drug lord is not pleased, and gives them five days to raise the lost money.
Beyond Silence
Rating: PG-13. Year: 1996.
The story of a little girl with deaf parents who has to choose between aiding her parents and her love for music.
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Rating: PG. Year: 2002.
Description: Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
Colonel Redl
Rating: R. Year: 1985.
Description: Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
Der Tunnel
Rating: N/A. Year: 2001.
Description: During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
Agnes und Seine Bruder
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: This drama focuses on three very different siblings, a sex-addicted librarian, a politician, and a trans woman, all searching for happiness.
Nichts Bereuen
Rating: N/A. Year: 2001.
Description: A recent high school grad still pines for an old classmate, and devises a stunt to get her attention.
Bang Boom Bang
Rating: N/A. Year: 1999.
Description: A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
Führer Ex
Rating: N/A. Year: 2002.
Description: Two young East Germans attempt to flee the communist oppression of their homeland but are captured by authorities and are indoctrinated by neo-Nazid while imprisoned. Once released, they are faced with the struggle of knowing what to truly believe in.
Die Frau meiner Träume
Rating: N/A. Year: 1944.
Description: A revue star escapes her exhausting theatre life. By train she travels to the mountains. Alone in the wilderness and dressed only in her fur coat, she is rescued by two engineers.
Circle of Deceit
Rating: N/A. Year: 1981.
Description: A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
My Mother's Courage
Rating: N/A. Year: 1995.
Description: The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Germany, Pale Mother
Rating: N/A. Year: 1980.
Description: In Germany 1939, Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. After Lene births their child and moves in with her parents, the war ends, but the two now deal with the difficulties of post war life and time apart.
Sansibar oder der letzte Grund(two copies)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1987.
Description: The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
Die Grenze
Rating: N/A. Year: 2010.
Description: Taking place in Germany 2010, The film explores the economic crisis in the oil industry caused by terrorist attacks, sky rocketing unemployment, rising violence and crime, along with extremist politics, leading to a potential German civil-war.
The Nasty Girl(two copies, one in the Michael Verhoeven collection)
Rating: PG-13. Year: 1990.
Description: When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Das Leben der Anderen
Rating: R. Year: 2006.
Description: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Deutschlandlied: Schicksale der Nachkriegszeit
Rating: N/A. Year: 1994.
Description: May 1945, the last days of the war. A young German soldier blows up a bridge to stop the American advance. The last skirmishes in “Königsbrück” near Frankfurt, a dark-skinned US soldier saves the lives of the war widow Anna and her daughter Betty.
Halt auf freier Strecke
Rating: N/A. Year: 2011.
Description: When Frank is diagnosed with incurable brain tumor, he's got only a few months to live. Along with his wife, he doesn't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
Jesus, du weißt
Rating: N/A. Year: 2003.
Description: Six Catholics share their thoughts and problems with Jesus in different churches. The camera accompanies them.
Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna
Rating: N/A. Year: 1990.
Description: This documentary, Ulrich Seidl's full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Eastern Europe, standing out in all weathers, peddling the trivial Viennese tabloids. We see their lives on the street, their cramped living quarters, their minders, the 'training' days, and the inhumane process which keeps them working endless hour for little reward.
Die Stunde des Lichts
Rating: N/A. Year: 1998.
Description: A young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
Rating: N/A. Year: 1955.
Description: Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé…
Dessau Dancers
Rating: N/A. Year: 2015.
Description: The unbelievable story of Breakdance in East Germany.
Frau Müller Muss Weg!
Rating: N/A. Year: 2015.
Description: Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher Mrs. Müller gone. They meet with Mrs. Müller and try to convince her to leave the class.
Die Mitte
Rating: N/A. Year: 2004.
Description: A story about locating the central point of Europe.
Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen & gesammeltes Nachrufe
Rating: N/A. Year: 1964/1965.
Description: A satire about the growing (or lessening) overlap between religion and broadcasting in 1950s Germany.
Duell der Brüder - Die Geschichte von Adidas und Puma
Rating: N/A. Year: 2016.
Description: A biopic about the intense rivalry between the creators of Adidas and Puma to be the top shoe manufacturer chosen by the world’s top athletes.
Jokehnen oder Wie lange fährt man von Ostpreußen nach Deutschland?
Rating: N/A. Year: 1987.
Description: The series tells the story of Hermann Steputat, born in 1934, in the village of Jokehnen in Eastern Prussia. The day he is born is also the day Hitler comes to power in Germany, and Hermann's grows up under the Nazi regime and during the years of WW2. But once the Soviet Union defeats the Nazis and establishes reign in Eastern Europe, Hermann and his family are sent to live under the appalling conditions of Eastern Germany.
Ferien
Rating: N/A. Year: 2007.
Description: It's summertime at a remote country house in the Uckermark nestling in the midst of protective woods. During the course of the summer, several generations of family will come here.
Terra Deutschland Saga
Rating: N/A. Year: 2014.
Description: In the six-part documentary series “Germany Saga”, the historian Christopher Clark tells the country's cultural history. Who were the first people on German soil? What traces have they left and how far do they extend to the present day?
Benjamin Blümchen
Rating: N/A. Year: 1988.
Description: A TV series about Newtown, which is a normal small town is famous for one special thing: the zoo has a talking elephant: Benjamin Blümchen. Everyone knows and loves him because he always helps out where help is needed or comes to the rescue.
Unser Sandmännchen: Traumsand in Gefahr
Rating: N/A. Year: 2000.
Description: The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
Briefe von Felix(two copies, different episodes)
Rating: N/A. Year: 2002.
Description: Sophie really loves her toy rabbit Felix, so when he accidentally floats away in a little hot-air balloon she's completely heartbroken. When she comes home from school one day, a letter from London has arrived for her - which is strange because Sophie doesn't even know anybody in London. Then she discovers that the letter is from Felix, her toy rabbit.
Die Wege Der Deutschen
Rating: N/A. Year: 2010.
Description: The 90-minute film on the history of the Germans reflects key historical turning points and lines of development that extend to the present day.
Der Ganz Große Traum
Rating: N/A. Year: 2011.
Description: An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
Ilona und Kurti
Rating: N/A. Year: 1992.
Description: A mother and son try to scheme their way into being heirs of a large fortune by trying to woo one of the heirs named Ilona.
Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen
Rating: N/A. Year: 1960.
Description: In 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.
Die Blume der Hausfrau
Rating: N/A. Year: 1999.
Description: This film tells of the everyday life of a group of vacuum cleaner representatives from the Vorwerk company who are trying, with varying degrees of success, to sell carpet cleaning equipment to their customers.
Das Kaninchen bin ich
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965.
Description: A young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons. Made in 1965 West Germany, it was made as a satire to encourage discussion about the democratization of East German society.
Denk bloß nicht, ich heule(part of the Verboten collection)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965.
Description: High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state.
Der Frühling braucht Zeit(part of the Verboten collection)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965.
Description: Even in the political environment of Marx and Engels, bosses sometimes took short cuts to complete safety critical work ahead of schedule. When an experienced and honest engineer, Heinz Solter, gets caught up in this, he blows the whistle and suffers accordingly as the system tries to get him.
Der verlorene Engel(part of the Verboten collection)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1971.
Description: August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor/author Ernst Barlach.He lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself, not interested in politics. This day he learns that his sculptor in the Cathedral is gone.
Karla(part of the Verboten collection)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965.
Description: East German romance about a non conformist young school teacher and a disenchanted journalist turned fisherman.
Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam(part of the Verboten collection)
Rating: N/A. Year: 1965, released in 1990.
Description: Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air.
Spur der Steine(part of the Verboten collection)
Description: Rating: N/A. Year: 1966.
Description: A film about living and working conditions in the German Democratic Republic of the 60's. Includes a little love story of course.
