Retrospectives
Between 1960 and 1989 the selection of the retrospectives occurred in cooperation with Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR, the East German Film Archive. Since 1991 this function has been taken on by the Film Departmnet of the German Federal Archives.
- 1960 Dziga Vertov
- 1961 Films of the world - for the peace of the world
- 1962 Alberto Cavalcanti
- 1963 Joris Ivens
- 1964 Robert Flaherty
- 1965 Films against fascism
- 1966 French documentary film
- 1967 50 years of Soviet documentary films
- 1968 Polish documentary film
- 1969 Documentary film and television journalism in the GDR
- 1970 Documentary film under Lenin
- 1971 Roman Karmen
- 1972 Films in the people's struggle for freedom: Latin America
- 1973 Films in class struggle - Traditions of the proletarian Filmmakers in Germany before 1933
- 1974 Cuban Documentary film
- 1975 Winners in Leipzig 1956-1974
- 1976 Japan documentary film
- 1977 New soviet Documentary film
- 1978 Anima 78 - Animated films from socialist countries
- 1979 Trials - Films by students of the University for Film and Television of the GDR
- 1980 Czech Documentary film
- 1981 American Social Documentary - USA-Documentary films 1930-1945
- 1982 Trailblazers
- 1983 Films in the people's struggle for freedom: Chile
- 1984 Reality and Film – proletarian and civic-progressive documentary films of the 1930s in Great Britain
- 1985 Anima for peace
- 1986 Spain 1939-1939
- 1987 Documentary film from middleasian soviet republics
- 1988 Documentary film in India
- 1989 Klaus Wildenhahn
- 1990 Karl Gass
- 1991 Trusting in everyday reality - Trends in documentary film making in Denmark
- 1992 To America
- 1993 Views of Leipzig
- 1994 Prize Reduction – Documentary film and the Geman Film prize
- 1995 Seen again – rediscovered
- 1996 The reality behind the images – films by Erwin Leiser
- 1997 Dialogue with a legend - award-winning films from the past 40 years
- 1998 Alles Trick – German animated films until 1945
- 1999 Children's films – Trying to draw the line
- 2000 Jürgen Böttcher
- 2001 Memory in images - 40 retrospectives from the documentary film archive
- 2002 Women-Film-Women
- 2003 Look/Look Back and Reality Caught Unawares
- 2004 Volker Koepp: People and landscapes – Films from Wittstock to Czernowitz
- 2005 Red films are easier spotted - The political documentary film in Germany 1980-2005
- 2006 enlightening – Classic Avant-garde and Experimental-films in Germany
- 2007 Spurensuche - Filmpositionen aus fünf Jahrzehnte
- 2008 Strange Home - Migration to and from Germany
- 2009 Joris Ivens
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