Almost all of DEFA's productions were recorded with the orchestra, including film classics such as Wolfgang Staudte's The Murderers Are Among Us (1946), Heiner Carow's The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), Peter Schamoni's Spring Symphony (1983) and all episodes of the Deutscher Fernsehfunk TV series Polizeiruf 110.
[2] The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg appears on more than 1.000 film productions, such as "Arlo the Alligator Boy", "Ad Astra" , "Tides", "Love, Death & Robots", "Sleepless", "Timeless", "Alone in Berlin", Hitman: Agent 47", Escobar: Paradise Lost", "Hector and the Search for Happiness", "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared", "The Congress", "Anonymous", "Little Big Panda", Ninja Assassin", Laura´s Star" and "Snow White".
[3] The orchestra also produces music for computer games, like "Balan Wonderworld" and "Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius".
From 1993 the studios of the orchestra were located in the former radio quarters of the GDR, at Nalepastraße in Oberschöneweide, Berlin.
The German Film Orchestra's current Chief Conductor is Scott Lawton, who assumed his post in 1999.