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Die Konzessionen des Mister Urquhart (The Concessions of Mr. Urquhart) (1961) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike, Annelie...

Der 13. Oktober – 1. Der durchbrochene Kreis (1949) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike and produced by DEFA. As part of...

A mushroom offers the animals of the forest, an ant, a butterfly and a mouse shelter from the storm. A little rabbit, who wants to hide from the fox,...

The bird moves to the south in autumn and sings his most beautiful song to the lion there. When he flies back to the north, the lion sets off on the...

On the table, the pencil is resting from his work. A hungry mouse discovers him on her foray. She threatens the pencil to gnaw him if he does not get...

The educational film is a variation on an old theme. It shows that human coexistence is a complicated but learnable art.

Short sex education film about STDs.

Documentary film about the Berlin state elections in the Soviet zone in October 1946

1971 documentary about the concentration camp Sachsenhausen commissioned for the National Memorial and Monument Sachsenhausen (GDR).

Documentary about the concentration camp Buchenwald.

1415: at a council in Constance on Lake Constance, high church dignitaries of the time come together to discuss which of the two popes should be...

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.