Digital collection

Browse the production archive of the Berlin documentary film company Känguruh-Film, which features ordinary people and extraordinary animals. The search is only available in German.

You can explore our Personal Papers and Company Archives which have an inventory of over 600 items. Here we present a selection of around 60 of them in detail. 

17,500 meters of outtakes and extensive materials related to the making of Murnau’s ‘Story of the South Seas’

From local movie theaters to colossal film palaces – discover 100 years of Berlin’s cinema culture!

Seventy posters were stored in a salt mine in Grasleben during World War II. They have been restored, digitized and are once again accessible.

Discover photo galleries from 44 of Werner Herzog’s films and dive into the world of the director’s imagery.

Get the first glimpse online into the Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin.

Josef Fenneker was one of the most important film poster artists of the 1910s and 1920s. An almost complete collection of his film posters is available for viewing, together with information about Fenneker's life and work.

Discover the artistic oeuvre of production designer Ken Adam, known for his work with directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Robert Aldrich and István Szabó as well as many on James Bond films.

Nearly fifty years of history at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) are now online: our DFFB archive website hosts full-length films, interviews with people who made or experienced events firsthand and a broad range of relevant supporting documents.

An extensive dossier of director Heinrich Breloer's production work is featured in our Personal Papers and Company Archives. It features a range of materials that provide insights into his methodology and approach.

The Camera database indexes almost 850 historical film characters as found in the largest public museums and collections in Germany.

"Lost Films" is an internet portal aimed at collating information and documents on films that are considered lost. More than 3,500 titles are available for research.

The documentary series covers more than a quarter-century of German ways of life. Discover photos and other documents related to making the long-running documentary project in Berlin.

Discover almost 7,000 private films and photos plus 100 accompanying written memories from the Fall of the Wall and German reunification.

The EFG Portal gives you quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques.