"germany"
Hitler's Germany in Color
This documentary is showing Nazi Germany in color. The original and unique color images are portraying the war and German life of the time. You will see the Nazis at work but also in their private situations. All film images are original and fully restored color recordings.
Germany from Above
This fly-over features Germany filmed from helicopters and small airplanes. Footage was released as a multi-episode tv series over several years and this feature-length movie.
Germany, Bitter Home
Follows the life of a Turkish woman living and working in Germany.
Germany Private 1 - Ethnologist of a People
"Deutschland privat" is a special project by Robert van Ackeren, who in 1979 asked people to send him their 8mm home movies by placing ads in several magazines in Berlin, Germany. In the ads he announced that he was planning to blow up and mount the best of those movies into a feature documentary to be released in German cinemas. He was surprised h..
Music in Nazi Germany - The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz
The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfis..
The World We Live In: Wandering Workers in Germany
Several cases of labour exploitation concerning migrant workers from Eastern European countries have become publicly known. The film portrays the life of three migrant workers: a construction worker from Bulgaria who lives on the streets of Frankfurt collecting bottles for a living; a woman from Romania who shares a hotel room with her daughters, e..
The Dutch Basalt Company 'Zaandam' in Germany and Holland
Corporate film about the extraction, processing, and use of basalt by the Nederlandsche Basalt Maatschappij.
Stasi East Germany's Secret Police
Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story of how the Stasi gained control over the lives of the East German people and the methods it used.
Bienvenue aux Hartmanns
La famille Hartmann est retourné lorsque la mère Angelika décide de prendre le réfugié Diallo, contre la volonté de son mari. Au milieu du chaos typique de notre temps, l'espoir demeure que la famille retrouve sa stabilité, la confiance et la paix - tout comme l'ensemble du pays.
Queen Germania
An androgynous savior figure comes to the German capital. Her journey floods the city with scenes from an imagined collective unconscious; past and future merge in an alternative present.
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Berlin, au debut des annees trente. Une famille n'arrive plus a survivre dans les conditions economiques catastrophique que connait le pays. Le fils, sans travail, se suicide. Sur le conseil de l'ami de la fille, la famille s'installe dans la colonie "Kuhle Vampe". Scenario de Bertolt Brecht.
Hitler
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire western world--at the cost of millions of lives--Hitler.
City Across the River
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming f..
The Worst Thing
In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group responsible for his murder.
Hoch der Lambeth Valk
A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.
40 qm Deutschland
Turna is brought from Turkey to Germany by her husband Dursun to start a new life. She soon realizes that he keeps her locked up in their flat every time he leaves for work in order to save her from immoral influences of the Western society. The dream of a better life becomes an inner fight between her culture and her freedom.
1937, un été en Allemagne nazie
Durant l'été 1937, l'Américain Julien Bryan obtient une permission spéciale pour parcourir l'Allemagne et filmer ce qu'il s'y passe. Deux mois durant, il enregistre un peu tout sans a priori et réussit à capter ici et là des scènes sur le vif qui ne sont guère à l'avantage des dignitaires nazis. Il fera sortir clandestinement sa pellicule..
Stolen Children
June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union in order to be educated in German culture, by both state schools and German families…
The Wandering Jew
The Wandering Jew tells the story of Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), a German-Jewish artist who experiences the new German antisemitism when his masterpiece, a portrait of his Polish-born father entitled "The Eternal Wanderer" is rejected by the Berlin Academy of Art, which also asks his resignation as professor. Later in the film the figure in the pa..
