Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman say their doc, debuting at SXSW, has parallels to today, from data collection to times "when your neighbors turn on each other, when realities become ...

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the personal investigation by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, into family secrets. His search for ...

East Germany’s Communist dictatorship ran one of the world’s most intrusive surveillance operations on its own people in a building only a little less ugly than that task. You won’t enjoy a visit to ...

Forget 1984! You don't usually get a non-fiction look behind the curtain of the state security and secret police apparatus in ...