This presentation introduces the digital research platform filmexile.de, developed from the DFG-funded project Mapping German-speaking Film Exile at the University of Mainz, which builds on Günter Peter Straschek’s extensive archive on the exile of German-speaking film professionals between 1933 and 1945. The project explores how digital methods—such as relational databases (MariaDB), graph databases (Neo4J), and visualisation tools—can help reconstruct the networks, trajectories, and filmographies of exiled filmmakers and make their stories visible once again.