EYEWITNESS NEWSREELS
This series of short films screened in movie theaters before the feature film offers an interesting glimpse into daily events in East Germany.
Eyewitness: The 1940s
Part 1 (1946-1947)
| No. 001, 02/19/1946: | The Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Boxing Match Eder-Przibilski |
| No. 003, 03/01/1946: | Free German Trade Union Federation, Furtwängler in Berlin, Hair |
| No. 016, 08/30/1946: | Lord Beveridge in Berlin, Dresden Kennels, "Circus Princesses" |
| No. 023, 10/18/1946: | Molotov in Paris, Eisenhower in Berlin, Troubles in Berlin |
| No. 025, 11/01/1946: | Children's Train Excursion, Elections in Berlin, Crispbread in Burg |
| No. 036, 01/17/1947: | Construction Lottery in Dresden, Montgomery Travels to Moscow |
| No. 038, 01/31/1947: | Comedian Cabaret, Penicillin Production |
| No. 044, 03/14/1947: | First Day of the Leipzig Fair, Bebel Celebration in the Berlin National Opera |
| No. 045, 03/21/1947: | General Marshall in Berlin, Moscow Conference, Fashion Show |
| No. 053, 05/16/1947: | Buchenwald Concentration Camp Victims, Anna Segher, Soccer |
Part 2 (1947-1948)
| No. 062, 07/18/1947: | Returning POW's from Russia, International Tennis Match |
| No. 063, 07/25/1947: | Monaco Celebrates, Tour de France Bicycle Race, Yachting |
| No. 071, 09/26/1947: | Boxing Match Hucks-Gahrmeister, Construction in Kursk |
| No. 084, 12/26/1947: | Retrospective, Christmas Shindig, Comic Opera "The Bat" |
| No. 093, 02/27/1948: | Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Thale Ironworks |
| No. 100, 04/16/1948: | Berlin and the Zone Borders, Fashion in Paris, Housing Conditions |
| No. 102, 04/30/1948: | Trial of the War Criminal Görlitzer, Spring in Berlin |
| No. 115, 07/30/1948: | Motorcycle Race in Berlin, National Opera: "Romeo and Juliet" |
| No. 118, 08/20/1948: | Explosion in Ludwigshafen, Children with Godparents |
| No. 121, 09/10/1948: | Opening of the National Theater in Weimar, W. Staudte Shoots a Film |
Part 3 (1948-1949)
| No. 130, 11/12/1948: | Boxing Match Schmeling-Vogt, Dresden National Theater |
| No. 135, 12/17/1948: | Toy Manufacture, Airlift, Free German Youth (FDJ) Activists |
| No. 137, 12/31/1948: | The Year in Retrospect |
| No. 009, 03/04/1949: | Hype about West Berlin Currency, Fashion for Big and Small |
| No. 020, 05/20/1949: | Soviet Cenotaph in Berlin-Treptow, Rescindment of the Blockade |
| No. 028, 07/15/1949: | Baltic Sea Vacations, Berlin National Opera: "Sleeping Beauty" |
| No. 031, 08/05/1949: | T. Mann in Weimar, 600 Years of Sunny Mountain, Sanssouci Visit |
| No. 048, 12/02/1949: | Christmas in the Berlin Pleasure Garden, Barlay Circus: Baby Lions |
| No. 050, 12/16/1949: | Seventieth Birthday of J.W. Stalin |
| No. 052, 12/30/1949: | Retrospect 1949 with the foundation of the GDR |
Eyewitness: The 1950s
Part 1 (1950-1953)
| No. 011, 03/17/1950: | Leipzig Spring Fair 1950 |
| No. 028, 07/14/1950: | Foreign Legionnaires in Vietnam, Sosa Dam, Gymnastics |
| No. 023, 06/01/1951: | Launch of the "Wilhelm Pieck," GDR Soccer Championship Finals |
| No. 033, 08/10/1951: | Third World Festival Games by the Youth and Students for Peace in Berlin |
| No. 053, 12/28/1951: | Caricaturists, Visit to a Liqueur Factory, "Happy New Year" |
| No. 002, 01/11/1952: | National Construction Program Berlin, Adenauer and Knechtsand Island |
| No. 021, 05/23/1952: | Essener Bloody Sunday, Book Week, Teletype from Chemnitz |
| No. 049, 12/05/1952: | Christmas Trees from the Thuringian Forest, Mansfeld Combine |
| No. 026, 06/26/1953: | Crimes of the Rosenbergs, TB Innoculations from Jena |
| No. 030, 07/24/1953: | Fallingbostel: Nazi Rally, "Avus" Race, Holiday in Thuringia |
Part 2 (1954-1956)
| No. 006, 02/01/1954: | Four Powers Conference in Berlin, Defeat for ten Hoff in the U.S.A. |
| No. 012, 03/19/1954: | "Ernst Thälmann" Film Premiere, Otto Grotewohl Turns 60, "Thistle" |
| No. 028, 07/09/1954: | Press Conference with Former Field Marshall Paulus |
| No. 052, 12/24/1954: | Border Guard, Xmas at the Head of the Train, East-West Celebration |
| No. 006, 02/11/1955: | 10th Anniversary of the Destruction of Berlin, Mardi Gras |
| No. 017, 04/29/1955: | Albert Einstein Dies, Lenin's 85th Birthday |
| No. 052, 12/30/1955: | The 500th Eyewitness - An Anniversary Show |
| No. 034, 08/24/1956: | KPD Banned - Report from Karlsruhe, Bertolt Brecht Dies |
| No. 051, 12/21/1956: | Highlights of the 16th Olympic Games |
| No. 052, 12/28/1956: | Our Republic 1956, West Germany: Rock n' Roll and Military Drafts |
Part 3 (1957-1959)
| No. 039, 06/11/1957: | Wedding of F.J. Strauss, Manöver: 15 Soldiers, Speedboat EM |
| No. 082, 11/08/1957: | Sputnik II with Laika, Ulbricht and Grotewohl Travel to Moscow |
| No. 095, 12/23/1957: | Year in Retrospect |
| No. 016, 02/21/1958: | Attack of Tunisia, Flak Unit of the National People's Army, Friedrichstadtpalast |
| No. 037, 05/06/1958: | May First: the Battle of Nuclear Death: National and International Reports |
| No. 045, 06/03/1958: | General de Gaulle in France, Berlin Presents Fashion "Line 58" |
| No. 021, 03/10/1959: | Khruschev at the Leipzig Fair, Alpine Ski Championship |
| No. 032, 04/17/1959: | Grotewohl on Adenauer, Professor Hagemann on Unity, Youth Celebration |
| No. 072, 09/04/1959: | GDR Convicts 4 German and American Agents, International Motor Boat Race |
| No. 082, 10/09/1959: | 10th Anniversary of the GDR |
Eyewitness: The 1960s
Part 1 (1960-1963)
| No. 016, 02/19/1960: | NATO Troops in West Berlin, Leipzig Zoo, Cross-country Driver |
| No. 035, 04/26/1960: | DEFA Film "Mother Courage," Ivory from Carrara, Basketball |
| No. 057, 07/12/1960: | Baltic Sea Week 1960 |
| No. 025, 06/20/1961: | 20th Anniversary of Military Aggression Against USSR, Kennedy Rally |
| No. 037, 09/12/1961: | Song About Willy Brandt & the 13th of August by Three Armor Soldiers |
| No. 052, 12/27/1961: | That Was 1961 |
| No. 010, 03/07/1962: | Leipzig Fair, 6th Anniversary of the National People's Army with a Big Tattoo |
| No. 045, 11/07/1962: | The "Spiegel" Affair, Leningrad Ballet "Dying Swan" |
| No. 045, 11/06/1963: | Birthplace of the Satellite, Seelenbinder Commemorative School of Gymnastics |
| No. 048, 11/27/1963: | JFK's Assassination, Racing Battle Vehicles, Motor Boat Race |
Part 2 (1964-1966)
| No. 040, 09/30/1964: | Farewell to Otto Grotewohl, "Täve" Schur Ends Career |
| No. 042, 10/14/1964: | 15th Anniversary of the GDR, DEFA Films in Zanzibar, Curling |
| No. 045, 11/04/1964: | Pass Agreement - Citizens of West Berlin in the GDR Capitol |
| No. 011, 03/10/1965: | 800 Years of Leipzig - 800 Year Fair, Handball |
| No. 042, 10/13/1965: | Guests from the Cosmos, Shots from "The Sons of the Great Bear" |
| No. 046, 11/10/1965: | Visiting with Heinrich Zille's Daughter, Modern Pentathlon |
| No. 022, 05/22/1966: | "Workers' Slap in the Face" for Lübke, Atomic Energy in GDR |
| No. 034, 08/17/1966: | 8/13/1966=5 Yrs Since Construction of the Wall=Peacekeeping Manifesto! |
| No. 038, 09/14/1966: | 8 Gold Medals: European Track and Field Championship |
| No. 051, 12/14/1966: | Hanoi - Berlin, Ice Hockey, Interesting Facts about Festival Day Roasts |
Part 3 (1967-1969)
| No. 010, 03/01/1967: | Around Alexanderplatz: the Center of the Capitol Emerges |
| No. 018, 05/10/1967: | 7th SED Party Congress, Consumer Goods with a Kick, 5,000 Hens in the Coop |
| No. 025, 06/28/1967: | Bloody Friday in West Berlin: the Murder of Benno Ohnesorg, Model Railway |
| No. 032, 08/09/1967: | New Mühlendamm Bridge, Alexanderplatz, Jack Kramer and Tennis |
| No. 017, 04/17/1968: | Dr. Martin Luther King Assassinated, European Boxing Cup |
| No. 032, 07/31/1968: | Youth Fashion, Jenapharm, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler |
| No. 044, 10/23/1968: | Mexico City: Summer Olympic Games Report |
| No. 009, 02/19/1969: | Gabriele Seyfert is Victorious in Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
| No. 042, 10/08/1969: | 20th Anniversary of the GDR |
| No. 053, 12/24/1969: | Television Cook Kurt Drummer, Apartments of Tomorrow |
Eyewitness: The 1970s
Part 1 (1970-1973)
| No. 006, 02/03/1970: | Auschwitz: Warning and Responsibility, 20 Years of National Security |
| No. 013, 03/24/1970: | Stoph-Brandt in Erfurt, Indoor European Track and Field Championship |
| No. 021, 05/21/1970: | Trips to Cuba, Nepal and Gdynia, Sports: Speedway, Soccer |
| No. 030, 07/21/1971: | Baltic Sea Week, Tromper Wieck: Campus March, Carpets from Baghdad |
| No. 044, 10/27/1971: | Free Angela Davis, Picasso Turns 90 - Looking Back, Sailing Regatta |
| No. 015, 04/05/1972: | Barzel and the Peace, Daniel Gérard "Butterfly," Menus for Children |
| No. 026, 06/19/1972: | Fidel Castro Visits the GDR, 14th Worker Festival |
| No. 034, 08/08/1973: | 10th World Fair |
| No. 035, 08/13/1973: | A Nation in Mourning: Walter Ulbricht Died on August 1st |
| No. 052, 12/14/1973: | Vienna Music Society: James Last, Christmas Celebration with Pit-Plash |
Part 2 (1974-1976)
| No. 028, 07/01/1974: | World Soccer Championship: GDR-FRG: 1:0, Eulenspiegel Publishing House |
| No. 031, 07/22/1974: | Gladys Marin - Visit to the GDR |
| No. 038, 09/03/1974: | Mecklenburg - How a Village Gave a Strip of Land Its Name |
| No. 048, 11/25/1974: | Palace of the Republic Topping-Out Ceremony, Harvest, Christmas Markets |
| No. 001, 01/03/1975: | The Carnation Revolution |
| No. 026, 06/27/1975: | Conference for Safety and Cooperation, 30 Years of the United Nations |
| No. 032, 08/08/1975: | Peace Agreement of Helsinki, Fifth Children and Youth "Spartakiade" |
| No. 010, 03/05/1976: | ORWO, Innsbruck: Highlights of the Winter Olympics |
| No. 017, 04/23/1976: | 30 Years of the DEFA Weekly Newsreel "The Eyewitness" |
| No. 024, 06/11/1976: | Cuban Cement Works, Trucks from Bela's Factory, Applied Arts Museum |
Part 3 (1977-1980)
| No. 044, 10/28/1977: | Ernst Barlach, Stralsund: Ocean Museum, Excavation at Rügen |
| No. 007, 02/10/1978: | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| No. 019, 05/05/1978: | 9 Young Artists, Dance Tournament: 23 Couples from 10 Countries |
| No. 041, 10/06/1978: | Joined on the Earth and in the Universe: Space Flight GDR - USSR |
| No. 052, 12/22/1978: | Year in Review: Thoughts and Opinions |
| No. 019, 05/11/1979: | Hovercraft, Sports: Sky Diving, Mountain Climbing, Skateboarding |
| No. 004, 01/25/1980: | Boney M - Concert in Warsaw, Remains of the Incas: Machu Picchu |
| No. 010, 03/07/1980: | 10th Political Song Festival: Songs Are the Brothers of the Revolution |
| No. 040, 10/03/1980: | History of Aviation, Profile of a Future Officer |
| No. 051, 12/19/1980: | We Were There - the Last "Eyewitness" |