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1. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,636 | Gross: $11.29M

2. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas

Votes: 152,676 | Gross: $4.06M

3. The Debt (I) (2010)

R | 113 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain

Votes: 71,893 | Gross: $31.18M

4. The Assignment (1997)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri

Votes: 9,988 | Gross: $0.54M

5. Faraway, So Close! (1993)

PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 9,123 | Gross: $0.81M

6. The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)

Unrated | 113 min | Comedy

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Joey Forman

Votes: 302

7. Deception (1992)

PG-13 | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

After her businessman husband dies suspiciously in a Mexican plane crash, his widow begins to investigate his labyrinthine financial dealings, not all of which are legal.

Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson

Votes: 2,578 | Gross: $0.61M

8. La Flor (2018)

808 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.

Director: Mariano Llinás | Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes

Votes: 816 | Gross: $0.00M

9. The Depraved (2011)

Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

When a group of urban explorers venture beneath Berlin, their guide hurts himself and the group must struggle to escape the subterranean maze beneath the city.

Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman, Klaus Stiglmeier, Max Riemelt

Votes: 3,110

10. The Defector (1966)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

Director: Raoul Lévy | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu

Votes: 813

11. Sun Alley (1999)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.

Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Robert Stadlober, Teresa Weißbach

Votes: 7,263

12. Man on a String (1960)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby

Votes: 496

13. Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Thriller

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Jacques Breuer

Votes: 353

14. The Rats (1955)

91 min | Drama

In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth

Votes: 372

15. West (2013)

R | 102 min | Drama

She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.

Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz

Votes: 1,035

16. The Cold Room (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A girl who arrives in modern day East Germany begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl in 1936.

Director: James Dearden | Stars: George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke

Votes: 260

17. Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine... See full summary »

Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Peter Kremer, Filip Peeters, Maria Ehrich

Votes: 346

18. Era of Dance (2017)

80 min | Documentary, History, Music

The first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".

Directors: Viktors Buda, Viktors Buda | Stars: Indulis Bilzens, Westbam, Derrick May, Roberts Gobzins

Votes: 47

19. No Way Back (1953)

87 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John

Votes: 96

20. The Lost World of Communism (2009– )

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Stars: Michael Pennington, Hagen Koch, Ursula Rumin, Horst Kreeter

Votes: 76

21. Free to Rock (2017)

61 min | Documentary, History, Music

FREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power... See full summary »

Director: Jim Brown | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Tsvety, Jimmy Carter, Yuri Valov

Votes: 104

22. HARTs 5 - Geld ist nicht alles (2013)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

Berlin 2013: Four men fight against turbo-capitalism. A tragicomedy about gentrification.

Director: Julian Tyrasa | Stars: Fabian Böckhoff, Dirk Dreißen, Frank Dukowski, Uli Engelmann

Votes: 20

23. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

24. Berlin Berlin (2015– )

45 min | Documentary, History

Six episodes highlighting the rise of Berlin, Germany, showing its historical infrastructure, political and social growth throughout the last eighty-years.

Stars: Frauke Poolman, Gerhart Baum, Walter Momper, Robin Lautenbach

25. Anderson - Anatomie des Verrats (2014)

90 min | Documentary

Sascha Anderson, writer, pop and media star in the GDR. Depicts her double life as a radical dissident and a Stasi informer.

Director: Annekatrin Hendel | Stars: Sascha Anderson, Wilfriede Maaß, Ekkehard Maaß, Cornelia Schleime

Votes: 35

26. Stasi East Germany's Secret Police (2007 Video)

59 min | Documentary

Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Gierke | Stars: Christian Schult, Jeff Matzka, James Spencer, Uwe Hillmer

Votes: 65

27. Förräderi (1994)

58 min | Documentary

Journalist Björn Cederberg travels to Berlin, Jena, Weimar and Rome to meet his old friend, the cultural worker Sascha Anderson. He got to know Anderson in 1983 in the GDR, where he was a ... See full summary »

Directors: Björn Cederberg, Fredrik von Krusenstjerna | Stars: Helga Ahlgrimm, Sascha Anderson, Björn Cederberg, John Hurt

Votes: 25

28. The Fall (VII)

Drama, History, Thriller | Announced

East Berlin, 1989: A single mother is forced to become a spy to save her son when he's framed for murder. Her act of revenge, woven into historic events, leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

29. John le Carré (2008 Video)

39 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

New, exclusive, wide-ranging interview with author John le Carré about the 1965 classic film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) in which he wrote the source novel.

Stars: John le Carré, Claire Bloom, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 7

30. Der Tag X (2019)

20 min | Short, Drama

June 17th, 1953: Frida's 8th birthday, was supposed to be a celebration, but instead tanks are rolling through the streets of East Berlin. Frida and her mother are waiting for the birthday ... See full summary »

Director: Katharina Rivilis | Stars: Jan Pohl, Katharina Rivilis, Nikolay Sidorenko, Ninel Skrzypczyk

31. Wir wollen freie Menschen sein! Volksaufstand 1953 (2013)

43 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Freya Klier | Stars: Peter Kloeppel, Thomas Arnold, Britta Steffenhagen, Franz Faulhaber

32. Strategy for Victory (1951)

Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, News

This edition of the March of Time views the tactics the Russians have used to build up their strength in Europe, following World War Two, and the actions the United States is using, the ... See full summary »

Director: James L. Shute | Stars: Westbrook Van Voorhis, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower

33. Geschichte treffen (2015– )

44 min | Documentary, History, Talk-Show

An infotainment series in a cross-over between documentary and talk-show: Host Wolf-Christian Ulrich presents known and unknown historical facts a completely new way.

Stars: Wolf-Christian Ulrich, Theo Waigel, Reiner Calmund, Horst Teltschik

34. 13. August 1961 - Bau der Berliner Mauer (1961 TV Special)

60 min | Documentary

On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistischer Schutzwall," or "antifascist bulwark," between East and West Berlin.

Director: Henry Müller | Stars: Helmuth Reinhardt, Lilo Katzke, Walter Ulbricht, Willy Brandt

35. AntiBasque (2016)

40 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

A young descendant of a Gernika's Nazi bombing victim wakes up in hotel's room in East Berlin. She is amnesiac and the only thing she can remember is that something terribly bad happened, but she cannot figure out what it is.

Director: Karlos Alastruey | Stars: Irune Abarzuza, Aintzane Alastruey, Miriam Araujo, Abel Azcona

36. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Die Akte (1992)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Rolf Tetzlaff works in a publishing house: he came from the German Democratic Republic where he has been in jail for 5 years for helping somebody to escape to the German Federal Republic ... See full summary »

Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 22

37. 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode: Iron Curtain Caper (1958)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Stu Bailey is sent to East Germany to rescue an American reporter possessing important government information who was taken prisoner by the Communists.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edd Byrnes, Jacqueline Scott, Kurt Kreuger

Votes: 51

38. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: In the Name of Science (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A scientist barters his freedom with a formula.

Director: Zale Dalen | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Ziegler, Dirk Benedict, Catherine Disher

Votes: 104

39. Forever Knight (1992–1996)
Episode: 1966 (1993)

Not Rated | 48 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

A hostage incident takes Nick back to Berlin in 1966.

Director: Don McCutcheon | Stars: Geraint Wyn Davies, Gary Farmer, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett

Votes: 50

40. Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1965)
Episode: The Easter Breach (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man plots to get his pregnant wife out of East Berlin by romancing her American lookalike.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Richard Beymer, Katherine Crawford, Ilka Windish, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 28

41. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: The Bank (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Belzig, head of a bank in East Berlin, tricks unwary people anxious to escape to the West that he can help them. Instead, he steals their money and kills them. He's amassing a fortune to ... See full summary »

Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris

Votes: 322

42. Part of the Problem (2018– )
POTP x Your Welcome/Bonus: The Great Jimmy Dore/Pandemic Fireside Chat 4 (2020 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Dave Smith, Michael Malice, Jimmy Dore, Robbie Bernstein

43. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: The Torch Has Passed (January 1961 - December 1961) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

The youngest President ever elected, Kennedy faces the height of the Cold War and a national civil rights crisis.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Conan O'Brien, Chris Matthews, Charles K. Ross

Votes: 29

44. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: The Dawn of the Cold War

56 min | Documentary, History, War

For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko

45. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Romeo Project (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Gabrielle Kleim was one of many women working in West Germany targeted by "Romeo Spies." Duped into sharing intelligence for love at the behest of the "Man Without a Face", East German HVA Chief Marcus Wolf.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: James M. Olson, Paul Maddrell, H. Keith Melton, David Charney

46. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Gentleman Spy: George Blake (2022)

Documentary, History, War

While a prisoner in North Korea, George Blake was recruited by the Soviets to spy on the British. He was caught and sentenced to prison but escaped to the Soviet Union.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Roger Hermiston, Mark Stout, David Major, Mark Kelton

47. TRIGGERnometry (2018– )
Michael Malice: Take the White Pill (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

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Stars: Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, Michael Malice

48. The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode: The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989 (2023)

Documentary, History

In 1989, the Berlin Wall was knocked down. The Soviet Union begins to come apart.

Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Paul Maddrell, Adam Roberts, Richard John Evans, Hope M. Harrison

49. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Berlin (2008)

Documentary

A nice journey of Sophie from the square of the Reichstag (the meeting with Sandrine Ribeiro-her guide in Berlin-) and the Charlie US Army checkpoint ( the separated families in Berlin, the... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Lichtenstein | Star: Sophie Jovillard

50. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein