Stasi Movies

A German Stasi officer is tasked with an assignment to reveal the identity of a mysterious assassin known as 'The Englishman'.

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by...

1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The...

Berlin, 1989. Helena and Louise are happy in their relationship if it wasn't for this huge wall separating them. The only solution is writing...

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate...

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s...

East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape that could go either way...

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six...

At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial employees" of the State Security. They were...

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside...