The article analyses two television productions from the 1970s, adapted from Aras Ören's long poems about the lives of Turkish migrant workers living in the Naunynstraße neighbourhood of Berlin-Kreuzberg. Both Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße (1973) and Kazim Akaya und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße (1975) use a mixture of poetic voice-overs, fictionalized scenes and documentary footage to paint a complex picture of not only the lives of migrant workers but also of their representation in the White German media establishment. Using the concept of postmigration that has dominated discussions on migration in the last decade, the article shows how the films constitute part of a forgotten archive of political cinema in Germany. In their foregrounding of racial capitalism and racist violence, these films not only illustrate postmigrant discourse but also point to its blind spots.