Efter andra världskrigets slut anländer Rachael Morgan till Hamburg för att återförenas med sin man, en brittisk överste som fått i uppdrag att återuppbygga staden. Snart uppstår en konflikt med en tysk man som de delar boende med. Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke och Keira Knightley spelar huvudrollerna i The Aftermath som är baserad på boken med samma titel av Rhidian Brook.

Wirtschaftswunder i efterkrigstidens Tyskland. Ekonomin går på högvarv och landet tycks vilja glömma det som hände under kriget och istället fokusera på framtiden. När en journalist av en tillfällighet identifierar en lärare som en före detta lägervakt från Auschwitz är det ingen som verkar vilja ta tag i frågan, förutom den unge åklagaren Johann Radmann. Det visar sig att han snubblat över en massiv konspiration som syftar till att dölja framstående offentliga personers nazistiska förflutna.

Till det ockuperade Berlin kommer den nitiska kongresskvinnan Phoebe Frost. Hon får höra rykten om att en nattklubbssångerska med kopplingar till en efterlyst krigsförbrytare står under beskydd hos en amerikansk officer. Hon tar hjälp av kapten John Pringle för att finna officeren, omedveten om att just Pringle råkar vara den förföriska sångerskans älskare.

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

I efterkrigstidens till synes demokratiska Tyskland döms den homosexuelle Hans upprepade gånger för otukt. I fängelset träffar han cellkamraten Viktor, som sitter inne på livstid för mord. De två männen inser med tiden att den frihet och den kärlek som de sökt på utsidan kanske endast är möjlig i det råa klimatet innanför murarna ...

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction to Weimar cinema, with Buchka's essay narrated over the images from film clips of 1920s era German films.

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.

This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World War II destruction that lingered at the time.

Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?

Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.