British troops at West Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks radio station

B&w - documentary - East Berlin - history - main street - soldiers march - Russian troops - Nikita Khrushchev embraces Walter Ulbricht - East German ready to leave - police guard border - workers build wall - church behind wall - fire hose sprayed at camera - armored vehicle - watchtowers - helicopter patrol - workers build barbed wire fence - people displaced by wall - guard releases tear gas - people flee from border houses - parents wave at daughter's wedding in West Berlin - woman says goodbye to daughter across barbed wire - E. German guard escapes over fence - Soviet Union - Cold War - repression - Germany

Close up of the Berlin Wall with barbed wire on top

Cuban leader Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet politicians. Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro leaves with their entourage. The Brandenburg Gate as seen from the West Berlin side at the height of the Cold War. Barbed wires on the border of East and West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall. East German soldier guards the border between the two Berlins. East German guard Konrad Schumann jumps over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun as he escapes to West Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Schumann runs towards and boards a West Berlin police van. Host or narrator of the film shows photographs of Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev and the "Leap into Freedom" photo by West German photographer Peter Leibing. "The communists are the true colonialists, as a matter of fact." The narrator said as the show reaches its conclusion. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: August 15, 1961.

In East Berlin, a man ducks and crawls under barbed wire while the Berlin Wall is under construction. He runs toward West Berlin, smiling.

Unissued / Unused material. <br/> <br/>East Germans seek refuge in West Germany. West Berlin. <br/> <br/>MS pan along railway track up to demarcation line of barbed wire. LS barbed wire, a farmer and horse ploughing a field can be seen through it. Angle shot showing barbed wire and sentry lookout post. <br/> <br/>Various shots of people walking along and entering a centre for refugees in West Berlin. All these people are carrying some of their belongings, in suitcases, boxes etc. <br/> <br/>MS people sat in corridor in the Centre. CU notice in German. Various shots showing Herr Lemmer, the Federal Minister of All-German Affairs, speaking to the refugees, CU's of refugees.

NOW THAT THE WALL IS DOWN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BERLIN, THERE WILL BE SOME WORK TO DO TO MAKE THINGS TRULY FREE.

ORIG. COLOR 525' SOF MAG ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF BERLIN WALL, BARBED WIRE ON TOP. LS BORDER GUARD IN BOOTH. GUARDS CLEANING AREA BEYOND WALL. VS OF NEW WALL AND OLD WALL TOGETHER. BORDER GUARDS WITH DOG. CEMETERY NEAR WALL. MOLONEY SU. GENERAL SHOTS OF GUARDS CLEANING OUT CEMETERY. ARMORED CARS AND TANKS. VS GUARDS AROUND WALL. LS ACROSS WALL TO AMERICAN SECTOR (?) CI: GEO - E. GERMANY W. BERLIN. BUILDINGS - WALLS BERLIN WALL.

TITLE: "BERLIN DUTY". A PLATOON LEADER INSTRUCTS HIS MEN IN SHADOW OF AN EAST BERLIN BORDER TOWER AND BARBED WIRE FENCES. PAN OF BARBED WIRE FENCING LEADER IS TELLING THEM ABOUT.

News In Brief - Berlin [Wall on 6th Anniversary]

News: Pan of the Berlin Wall under construction; bricks set in wall, patrolled by Soviets. Women separated by wall of barbwire speak, watched by Soviet guards, they wave goodbye to each other and cry (Mother and Daughter). 01:58:00:00 Teen makes dash for freedom under barbed wire, he makes it! Others make break for freedom, one girl is shot dead at barbed wire wall. 01:58:31:00: East Berlin with signs and guards patrol wall. Barbed wire rolled out at wall. Wall constructed, people on either side wave to each other. Old woman with binoculars look out at wall. 01:59:39:00 1989: Color: The wall comes down. People hammer at wall, sit on wall, party at wall. People stream through the wall, shake hands with Soviet guards; fireworks at Brandenburg gate; couple kisses at wall. To view this clip, please visit www.filmarchivesonline.com/onlineindex.shtml and click on SCOURGE OF BERLIN WALL

This 1960s film titled “Barricade” protests the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. It shows the construction of the Wall in stages, starting with the initial temporary fence, a proper brick wall, and finally a reinforced wall with the Death Strip. The theme running through the film is people’s yearning for freedom, with footage of people escaping at each stage of constructions. It ends with a homage to the victims of the Wall, showing memorial services held for them. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961.<p><p>0:07 overview of the death strip at the Berlin Wall, a no-man's land filled with tank traps and barbed wire, 0:26 two East Berlin Border Guards on patrol, 0:48 footage and stills of different people being emotional by the Wall and waving and communicating with people on the other side, 1:52 a cross in the ground labelled “We are all Germans”, 1:58 people waving at each other interjected with footage of border guards, 2:13 a funeral ceremony and protest by the Wall, 2:46 Title “Barrikade”, 2:54 people watching as the Eastern German Military begins constructing the Wall, 3:38 East German soldiers observing the construction of a preliminary border fence, 4:04 East Germans jumping over the fence, 4:41 Nikita Khrushchev giving a speech, 4:45 soldiers erecting barricades at night, 4:48 start of construction of the proper wall, 5:16 the wall at Bernauer Strasse, 5:33 an East Berliner throwing their belongings out of a window and jumping out, 5:56 East Berliner trying to jump out while soldiers are trying to pull her back in, 6:22 tear gas being fired at protestors during a protest, 7:07 Walter Ulbricht giving a speech, 7:16 stills of different people killed after trying to cross the Wall, 7:52 people, including Berlin Mayor Willi Brandt, at the Wall mourning the death of a victim of the Wall, 8:10 footage of the continued fortification of the wall, 8:29 bricks being laid in windows in apartments by the Wall, 9:18 shorts of different East German border guards on duty at the wall, 9:51 East German guards jumping over the fence, 10:12 memorial to Ida Siekmann followed by memorials to others, 10:33 zoom in on the barbed wire on top of the Wall, 10:49 the death strip and other close ups of the Wall, 11:24 the Wall covered in snow during winter, 11:43 West Berliners looking to the other side, 12:02 “Barrikade”<p><p>Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

British troops at Haus des Rundfunks radio station in West Berlin

b&w newsreel - East German blockade - refugees await processing - families - Berlin Airlift - people board plane - plane takes off - people at railroad station - troops build Berlin Wall - unroll barbed wire - people gather at fence - Mayor Willy Brandt - guards at fence - Communism - Germany - Cold War - East and West Berlin