The Red Orchestra was a resistance group that fought against Nazi power within Germany from 1933 to 1942. The Gestapo labeled them as communists and traitors for their efforts to put an end to Hitler’s reign, a theory that was upheld by allied secret services until recently.
After becoming notorious world-wide for a bloody killing, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, former general and chief of the South Vietnamese police, moved to the United States and opened a restaurant outside of Washington, D.C. Contrasting images from these two phases of his life are intercut.
The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addition allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent difficulty of recognizing it as a potentially dangerous drug.
Georgi Dimitrov gives a speech calling for all progressive forces to present a unified front at a 1935 convention of the Communist International in Moscow. Scenes from his life are presented in flashbacks and accompanied by historical documents.
A short documentary about East German remembrance of the victims of National Socialism.
This film comments on the US military practice of testing Remington .12 caliber bullets in Vietnam.
Valuable PVC produced in the GDR is being smuggled across the sector boundaries in Berlin to supply Western chemical companies. Officer Schubert begins to investigate the case, but he is at a loss for leads when all the production and export records appear to be in order.
In the fall of 1793, essayist and naturalist George Forster travels from Paris to Switzerland where he will meet his wife, Therese, to discuss divorce. Therese has travelled with her two children and new lover, Ferdinand Huber. Although exhausted from the physical and psychological battles now ra
In this cut-out animated short, a representative of the United States government travels around the world to give speeches on four continents in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independance.
Director Kurt Tetzlaff initially intended to create a portrait of young people in East Germany; but political changes soon overtook his concept.