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Vintage film footage, family photos, and personal recollections reveal the unheralded story of the largest ethnic group in the United States -- one in five Americans is of German ancestry. Families who left the Heimatland in search of opportunity set the stage for America's early economic growth as stewards of the land, unyielding laborers, and leaders in every major industry. The German Americans explores the immigrant experience and celebrates the cultural ties that still bond generations after 400 years in the United States.

Nearing 80 and ready to retire, brothers Harry and Guenter Kempf close the doors of their iconic restaurant, the Chicago Brauhaus, forever. "Gemutlichkeit" chronicles the Kempf brothers' decision to close a thriving neighborhood institution, as well as Harry's journey as a young refugee from war-torn Germany to his status as a pillar of the Chicago community of Lincoln Square. What does the future hold for the neighborhood without the restaurant as its centerpiece?

"Condemned as Nazis - Germans in American Camps" sheds light on a dark chapter of World War II that is still persistently ignored by American politics: the fate of German-American families in American internment camps.

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A short-film adaptation of the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.