Te nuinga i Tirohia Tuhinga ka whai mai DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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...

Short film about electric railroad lines

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

Volker Koepp's second Wittstock film.

Documentary short.

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.