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In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provocative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

In the aftermath of World War II, an American soldier falls in love with a Polish woman, and offers his help of leaving the country. But the circumstances turns out otherwise.

An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.

Lackluster, plodding stationmaster Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

The history of the great British rock band.

At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe.

Six students between the ages of 16 and 18 are waiting in a classroom for their new teacher.

Documentary on the making of the movie "Under the Volcano."

A once celebrated, still famous actress lives "unreachable" and withdrawn in a villa in Berlin's Grunewald.

This socially conscious film, set in South Africa, presents an interracial love story between a German geologist and a young black woman. The German is only visiting South Africa. He meets his new love in a shop where he hires her as his housekeeper. She soon becomes his lover and this infuriates their nosy neighbors who report them to the police.

A package of short films, appearing in the U.S. and elsewhere in art-house cinemas, festivals, and as a television series on U.S. public stations, including adaptations of the Nadine Gordimer South Africa-set stories "Country Lovers", "City Lovers", "Six Feet of the Country", "Oral History", "Praise", "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants", and "A Chip of Glass Ruby", plus a Nadine Gordimer interview.

Augustin is a 30-year-old university professor. He does not believe in religion. His only belief is in maths, to which he devotes all his time. Then suddenly a series of pressing existential questions start looming in his mind.

This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

From a portrait of the Dalai lama as a spiritual and temporal leader, to an unprecedented revelation of the mystical inner world of monastic and an unflinching depiction of the moving response to a death in the community, the film takes the viewer on a journey deep into the heart of an ancient Buddhist way of life and brings you face to face with the unbroken continuity of Tibet's unique culture.

Sarajevo, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Gabriel Princip. Examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Guenter Mack) is in charge of the local investigation that follows and must juggle his personal life with political problems that will obviously end in world conflict.