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Spy/Master is a Cold War spy series starring Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as a Soviet secret agent who defects to the US.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

The games were rigged, players’ families were held and, eventually, all their fans deserted them. This is an astute look at the wild story of a Stasi-run East German club

Stasi FC is a gripping feature documentary. Plus: it’s Junior Eurovision time! Here’s what to watch this evening

From intimidating referees to putting players under surveillance, BFC Dynamo was an unstoppable football squad … run by the secret police. Now the team are speaking out for a documentary

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

The Day of the Jackal writer has been hauled before a court after an administrative error — which he insists the Met is to blame for

Exile in 1976 spawned mass protest movement and led to exodus of some of GDR’s top artists and actors

DRESDEN, Germany — Meticulous. Reticent. Clever, but never showy about it. Ever the watcher.

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state