Mdr Movies

Former East Germany, punk music, the wall, betrayal, jail, exit for the West: a film confronting these things on the offensive – and seeing its view o...

Is 2012 threatening the end of the world? Are unforeseen disasters coming? Do ancient prophecies come true? Are the earthquakes, hurricanes, financial...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that really the case? The film takes a critical look on the...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.

An explosion of gender identities and sexual orientations is currently underway: They are becoming more flexible, more diverse and, above all, more vi...

Is there still Nazi loot hidden in buried bunkers on the Buchenwald concentration camp? Historians and scientists try to solve an old mystery.

She was a senior supervisor in Nazi concentration camps, but directly after the war she managed to get away from a prison in Krakow. The documentary i...

Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd...

Time and again he challenged his fate at the gambling table. Based on the genesis of the biographically significant novel "The Gambler", the documenta...