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1. The Red Elvis (Der rote Elvis)

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

2. DDR - die entsorgte Republik (DDR - die entsorgte Republik)

(DDR - die entsorgte Republik)

3. Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution (Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)

(Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

4. I Am My Own Woman (Ich bin meine eigene Frau)

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.

It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.

5. Winter adé (Winter adé)

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made, and their place in the world. Despite everything, hope persists.

It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.

6. From Us to Me (Vom Wir zum Ich)

In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany. They filmed the workers of the state-owned fishing concern in Warnemünde and a brigade of crane operators at the state Warnow dockyards. Just two years later, East Germany was history, including most of the jobs it once provided. Twenty-five years later, in 2014, the filmmakers returned to an utterly different Rostock. They visited the people they had filmed in 1987. Together, documentarians and subjects look at excerpts from the earlier film, and talk about the enormous changes the men and women experienced, how they dealt with them, and how they feel today.

It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.

7. Bernau liegt am Meer (Bernau liegt am Meer)

Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and describes the radical right-wing milieu in which he grew up. In his candid portrait of how right-wing radicalism breeds, Daniel explains how difficult it is to break out of a vicious circle of violence, self-hatred and a right-wing extremist frame of mind.

8. East-West Passage (Kelet-nyugati átjáró)

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

9. Heimatkunde (Heimatkunde)

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

10. Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann (Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann)

(Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann)

11. DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 (DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953)

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic has repeatedly struggled with domestic political problems. While the standard of living of the population in the western part of Germany steadily increased, it stagnated in the GDR . A one-sided, industry-oriented reconstruction policy, coupled with rapid militarization, weighed on the country's economy, which was already under pressure from Soviet reparations demands. A majority of the population did not identify with the socialist system, which accordingly stood on shaky ground.

12. Alfred (Alfred)

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in 1985.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

13. Großes Kino made in DDR (Großes Kino made in DDR)

(Großes Kino made in DDR)

It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.

14. Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf (Zeitschleifen - Im Dialog mit Christa Wolf)

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics, life and work.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

15. Last to Know (Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem)

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunification in 1990, talk about their times of trial and their lives today. Neither they, nor their families have come to terms with what happened.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

16. Our Children (Unsere Kinder)

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks and neo-Nazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by western countries. Director Roland Steiner had access to such young East Germans in the late 1980s. Over the course of four years, he brought them before the camera in an attempt to understand what drew them to these groups.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

17. Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers (Wende im Eis - Die Geschichte der letzten DDR-Antarktisforscher)

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

18. Brüder Kühn: Zwei Musiker spielen sich frei (Brüder Kühn: Zwei Musiker spielen sich frei)

(Brüder Kühn: Zwei Musiker spielen sich frei)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

19. Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel (Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel)

(Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

20. This Ain't California (This Ain't California)

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.