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Kathe Kollwitz – Roland Films on Art

  Käthe Kollwitz was the most powerfully emotional German artist of this century; this film describes her life and work, and stresses the timelessness and humanity of her art. Its Read More

Otto Dix: The Painter is the Eyes of the World

  This first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and works of the maligned German artist who was blacklisted by the Nazis for his paintings Read More

What Do Those Old Films Mean? – Volume 6: Germany 1926-1932

  What Do Those Old Films Mean? was originally a six-part series that aired on England’s Channel Four Television. The series was conceived by Noël Burch. It explores the early Read More

Germany: The Reluctant Nation

  Germany, the most prosperous nation in Europe, has come a long way since World War II.  But economics is only a part of the picture.  This program provides some Read More

Rainer Maria Rilke: A Poet’s Cosmology

  Rainer Maria Rilke’s supreme mastery of the German language, which he manipulated with an unprecedented subtlety and plasticity, forms the bedrock upon which his reputation as one of the Read More

George Steiner: Vienna 1900

  Behind 1900 Vienna’s façade of elegance and affluence, a new generation of artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers was struggling to escape the straitjacket of Austro-Hungarian society. In this vintage Read More

Vienna 1900: Recollections of a Viennese Girl in Paris

  Jean-Louis Fournier’s film revisits Imperial Vienna at the turn of the century, a time and place that exploded in social and political change. This program recounts how the opulent Read More

Bavaria It’s Yours! – Deutsches Museum Munich

  Discover the treasures of the largest museum of science and technology in the world: Deutsches Museum Munich.  Take an exciting tour through the history of energy, matter, communications and Read More

Making of the German Nation

  A complete geographical, political and social history of Germany from 1815 through 1985 using narration, still images, and original video footage.  (In English)

Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century

  This stunning program looks at the development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it—including the founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, László Read More