The stories about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali are well known. But how accurate are they? Often the retelling of the civil rights movement is neutered by misrepresentations […]
Josef Mengele – the hunt for a Nazi criminal
Few Nazis were as notorious and gruesome as doctor Josef Mengele. But who was Mengele and how did he manage to disappear after WWII until his death in 1979? After the end […]
A guitarist takes on the state – Wolf Biermann and the GDR
Musician Wolf Biermann played his guitar and sang about the inadequacies of the GDR. In 1976, he was expelled from Communist East Germany. He had long viewed the “Workers’ and Peasants’ State” […]
A secret Cold War deal between Romania and Germany
The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu allowed people of German descent to leave for Germany during the Cold War – in return for money. This secret trade cost the German government billions and […]
Sacramento marks 50 years since Black Panther Party stormed State Capitol
Founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter Tanya Faison was among those who attended the rally. Fifty years after the Black Panther Party “came into the Capitol and they came in with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Life with my brother, Che Guevara
Fifty years on from the death of Che Guevara, what is his legacy – if any? In this exclusive report from Buenos Aires, Stephen Smith meets his younger brother Juan Martin Guevara […]
Potsdam in 1945
Impressions filmed on the road from Berlin to Potsdam, just after the end of World War Two from Potsdam, close to Berlin (south-west). These images must have been shot in or after […]
Hermann Göring in Custody on May 15, 1945
Rare Footage material in High definition quality after Göring was taken into custody by the US army in May 1945. Here we see him on a walk accompanied by the US Army […]
Colour footage from Copenhagen in 1945
Copenhagen was liberated in May 1945 by British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Scenes from the harbor and the city center of Copenhagen, where people are celebrating peace.
Ib “Rock” Jensen live at Folkets Hus (now Vega) in 1956
Here is Ib Rock Jensen (Dennmarks first “Elvis”) in a extremely rare clip. Second clip is from the Danish movie ” Støve På Hjernen” from 1962 with Dirch Passer and Helle Virkner […]