Du - Zwischenzeichen der Sexualität 1968 ( 3)

Educational film devoted mainly to understanding sexual behavior that deviates from the norm and circumstantially attempts to de-taboo human sexuality. The manuscript of the film, which uses a wealth of interviews, statements, charts and reportage elements, was written by the director of the Institute for Educational Psychology at the PH in West Berlin.

Hurra, wir werden aufgeklärt 1989

German cinemas were flooded with sex education films in the 60s and 70s. What was shown in cinemas then and was meant seriously, is today rather unintentionally funny.

Die Aufklärungsrolle - Als die Liebe laufen lernte 1988 ( 2)

Compilation film with material from German sex education films of the 60s and 70s. A flood of such films started in cinemas at that time and the makers wanted to educate about sexuality and its possible dangers.

Death Mills 1945 ( 6.5)

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.

Seeds of Freedom 1943 ( 1)

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).

Ledové moře volá 1961 ( 5)

A group of children from 1930s Prague follow the news about the polar expedition of the Chelyuskin, whose members find themselves stranded on a floating crust after the shipwreck. The rescue operation they had planned eventually turns out to be an aid to the striking workers of Děčín...

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