Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit - Alltag einer Behörde

Cell 364

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that quest

2020

Stasi, un État contre son peuple

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six milli

2021

Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 sui

2017

Sag mir, wo du stehst

2011

Last to Know

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunificati

2006

Freundschaft! - Die freie deutsche Jugend

2008

Generation '89 - Growing up in the year of change

The documentary tells the story of the reunification from the perspective of six teenagers from East Germany.

2015

Stasi auf dem Schulhof

At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial employees" of the State Security. They were approac

2012

Codename Pirate

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a son’s j

2014

Kalter Krieg der Konzerte - Wie Bruce Springsteen den Osten rockte

2013

The Stasi: Secrets, Lies and British Spies

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be re

2023

The Open Secret

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The

2022

Geheimsache Mauer - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Grenze

2011

Erich Mielke - Master of Fear

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

2015

Anderson

Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson.

2014

Das Ende des Politburos

2009

Die Spezialkommission - Geheime Mordermittlung in der DDR

2017

Feuerland

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

1988

The Spy Who Ended Up in the Cold

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside Umeå, nor

2014

Der Fall der Mauer

2005