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Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin. At first, the neighbors made an effort to welcome them, but later became more distant. Isabel does not feel at home in the strange country. Not even her friendship to Philip, the neighbors’...

Delve into the chilling accounts of Hitler and the Nazi’s ruthless aspirations and savage victories as German armies blitz their way through Northern Europe and invade the Soviet Union as the early years of World War II gain full momentum.

The Waffen SS represented Hitler’s elite fighting force. The sinister black-clad figures of nightmare, they hold a unique and dark place in German military history. Their code demanded a lethal combination of bravery and savagery.

Driven by hatred towards Hitler, courageous co-conspirators set an intricate plan in motion to bring the Fuhrer to his demise known as the Valkyrie Plot. The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler occurred in July 1944 but failed.

The Gestapo represented Hitler’s secret police force. The clandestine organization created by Hermann Goering was tasked with the judicial responsibilities of handling arrests, torture, confessions, and information gathering for the Reich.

On a hot summer day, a girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat by Peer, as his helpless friend Timo watches. Exactly 23 years later, another 13-year-old, Sinikka, is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot, leading police to suspect the same killer may be at work again. Recently widowed detective David and his colleague Janna struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes with the help of Krischan, the retired investigator...

1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller interviews German film historians, archivists and film-goers in an investigation of the power and potential danger of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films...

Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy (Sonja Sutter), a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and can’t find a new job. Desperate for companionship and money, he falls for Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers. Lissy's brother, who for a time sympathized with the communists, now also wears the SA uniform. When he is killed by the Nazis—because...

Germany, 1934: Hella Lindau and her fiancé Hermann Reimers are members of an anti-Nazi resistance group. When they are betrayed, Hella takes the blame and is sentenced to ten years in prison for high treason. Though Hermann is not allowed to marry her, his letters and visits keep her hope alive; after she spends years in solitary confinement, he also manages to get permission for her to live and work with other prisoners. Nine-and-a-half years into...