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A young East German man's pro-Socialist mother comes out of her coma after the fall of Communism in 1990 and to protect her health, he goes to great lengths to keep the truth from her.

This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the "most powerful piece of propaganda ever produced". Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer.

After his resolutely socialist mother awakes from a coma, the duration of which bridged the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex creates an elaborate charade to preserve the culture of the DDR in order to shield her from the shock of the fall of communism

Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population. An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and...

A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier,...

After her father's death, Marie of Burgundy is the richest heiress in Europe, but the sharp-minded woman resists the citizens of Ghent who try to force her into a marriage with nine-year-old Charles, the French King Louis' son. Meanwhile, Maximilian, the young Austrian archduke, stubbornly opposes his father Frederick who also wants him to marry the young duchess. Nevertheless, Frederick has the merchant Fugger negotiate the marriage between Maximilian...

Based on the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, an expert counterfeiter in Berlin who is arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp, but then is recruited to counterfeit bank notes to fund a nearly bankrupt German government in exchange for fair treatment.