Topic: Facts & Alternatives

In the 1970s, Peter Brückner was an iconic figure of the German New Left and was the first university professor to lose tenure for political reasons.

In the local outdoor pool, documentary realism mixes with staged absurdity.

The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

An ex-Salafist and an ex-Neo-Nazi confront their past. Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein were trapped in an ideology for years.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Edward Montgomery Clift, four-time Academy Award nominee, was one of the first method actors and known for his roles as "moody, sensitive young men".

Cult director Rosa von Praunheim explores the question of how gay Goethe and his contemporaries were. How did they perceive homosexuality?

A documentary about the moon landing and its faking.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.