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Look at this City

  This polemical documentary—using rare authentic images and newsreels from both sides—justifies the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. It represents West Berlin as the frontline of Read More

The History of the Volkswagen

  This revealing program looks at the history of the Volkswagen Beetle opening up the secret history of the World’s most popular car.  By the sixties, the Beetle had won Read More

Location: Neubrandenburg

  This professionally-produced documentary shot on location in Neubrandenburg, Germany, offers viewers a fascinating human perspective on daily life in post-Wende Germany.  Nine short portraits of citizens comprise the video.  Read More

Degenerate Art? Balance Sheet of an Iconoclasm

  Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist Read More

Biedermeier: A Way of Life in Austria, 1815-1848

  This video traces the major social, cultural, technological and political developments that took place in Austria between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions of 1848, a Read More

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Franz Kafka

  This ground-breaking video series combines drama, documentary and critical analysis by renowned authors and critics – including Anthony Burgess, V.S. Pritchett, and Frank Kermode – to illustrate the works Read More

Charlie & Louise

  10 years ago, Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then, their daughter Charlie grew up with her father, and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They Read More

A Coffee in Berlin

  There’s a sharp commentary at the heart of writer-director Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature, “A Coffee in Berlin” (originally titled “Oh Boy”), which swept up many of the major Read More

Almanya: Welcome to Germany

  After working for 45 years in Germany as a Turkish Gastarbeiter, or guest worker, Hüseyin Yilmaz, now in his 70s, announces to his family that he has bought a Read More

Berlin, Schönhauser Corner

  Berlin Schönhauser Corner is the story of four aimless young people. Dieter (Ekkehard Schall) is the oldest of the bunch, and, as the brother of a policeman, he gets Read More