28 years after its construction, the Berlin Wall falls, paving the way for the reunification of Germany. Co-production with the BBC.

Border crossing between Berlin's American sector and East German side of the divided city, 1952

9/19/2024

A “Border of Lights” illuminates the path of the Berlin Wall that once divided the city. Balloon lanterns were strung over 9 miles to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall.

B&W newsreel film. The Berlin Crisis refers to the blockade of West Berlin by Soviet forces between 6/24/1948 through 5/12/1949. Western Countries, led by the US and Britain, created an airlift to bring food and other supplies to the besieged people living in West Berlin. We have a series of newsreel reports on this period of time This report titled “Berlin Crisis: Blockaded Capitol World’s Power Keg”

The divided city of Berlin, Germany soon after World War II. People listening to television and radio. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving into West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. The warehouse loaded with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks in front of Brandenburg Gate spraying water at the West German photographers and onlookers. East Germans constructing concrete Berlin Wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of an apartment house in East Berlin; as they are separated from each other at time of a family Wedding. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another to get to and from school. Crowds of West Berliners yelling at guards on East Berlin side in protest. Soldiers at the border. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: 1961.

The Berlin Wall divides families on opposite sides of the wall. East Berliners flee, successfully crossing the barricade despite police attempts to stop them.

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

Checkpoint Charlie in the American section of West Berlin. U.S. Soldiers man the checkpoint at night. Tanks stand guard at the border crossing between West and East Berlin. Sign at Checkpoint Charlie that reads ?You are leaving the American Sector?. Soldiers guard the border crossing in Berlin. Soviet Army guards stand watch on the East Berlin side of the checkpoint. People stand behind a barbed wire fence on the East Berlin side of the border. American soldiers and civilians cross the Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin. U.S. and Communist Army tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. A Soviet soldier raises the gate at a Checkpoint between East and West Berlin. Brandenburg Gate. Berlin street activity. People carry suitcases, pull carts full of belongings. East Germans construct Berlin Wall. People trying to cross wall. Man jumps from apartment building. Border guard runs down street. Tanks on street. Stills of Peter Fechter, who was killed trying to cross wall. Holes in wall. Wall rebuilt by soldiers. People making tunnels under wall. Tunnels destroyed. Fechter taken from wall, small memorial by wall. Title card: KHRUSHCHEV AT WALL OF SHAME. Khrushchev visits wall, walks with soldiers. Title card: WEST BERLIN MARKED 2nd YEAR OF WALL. Memorial wreath laid at wall for dead. American Soldiers and German Civilian policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in the American Zone of Berlin. The American, French and British sectors of West Berlin, and the Berlin Wall in the late 1960s. Sign for an Allied Checkpoint in West Berlin. Communist blocks of apartment buildings seen on the other side of the Berlin Wall. A car crosses to West Berlin through a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. Children play near the Berlin Wall. People stand on an elevated platform to view East Germany over the Berlin Wall. Two old women wave at each other from East and West Germany from across a checkpoint in Berlin.

9/24/64 A0008593 EAST & WEST BERLIN: WHEN ON AUGUST 13, 1961 THE COMMUNISTS FINALLY DIVIDED BERLIN INTO TWO PARTS, A HUMAN TRAGEDY BEGAN FOR BERLINS POPULATION: IT TOOK MORE THAN TWO YEARS TILL THE COMMUNISTS ALLOWED A GREATER NUMBER OF WEST BERLINERS TO CROSS THE BORDER TO EAST BERLIN: LN 15373 "EAST & WEST BERLIN" SHOWS: NO SHOT LIST, REFER TO FILE: (SHOT 9/24/64 100FT) GERMANY, BERLIN - WALL & VISITS GTN - ULLRICH / 100 FT / 16 NEG / R5399

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WORLD NEWS. EAST BERLINERS FLEE ACROSS RED NO-MAN LAND. VIEW OF THE NO-MAN'S LAND DIVIDING EAST AND WEST BERLIN.

BLACK AND WHITE VINTAGE NEWS FILM.

During mounting Berlin Crisis, view of map of Germany with separated East and West Germany. East Berlin refugees gathered and on streets with their luggage at Marienfeld Refugee Reception Center in West Berlin. They are among the last to escape East Berlin before the Soviets close the border. Refugees in queue to be processed entering West Berlin. Old woman refugee smiles as she helps a young boy drink from a cup. Refugees at airport with their children to be flown to other cities in West Germany. They board plane and it takes off. People at railway station to see off their relatives as they flee East Germany. East German soldiers digging emplacements in roadway near Brandenburg Gate to erect blockade (the beginning of what became the Berlin Wall). They unload a truck filled with poles. Soldiers wire the border. People watch soldiers running barbed wire enclosing East Berlin territory; the beginning of the Berlin Wall. Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, with others on street. Communist soldiers on the closed border. A Russian soldier on the East side of the road divided with barbed wire fence. Tanks and people on road. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: August 1961.

SUCESOS PERUANOS NEWSREEL No. 100

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EAST BERLIN: EAST AND WEST GERMANS SIGN AGREEMENT ON TRAFFIC ACCESS TO THE DIVIDED CITY. LNC 29066 "BERLIN AGREEMENT" SHOWS: MS BAHR (LEFT) AND KOHL SIGN AGREEMENT: MS KOHL SPEAKS (GERMAN SOF): MS BAHR SPEAKS AND GETS UP AND SHAKES HANDS WITH KOHL: (SHOT 12/11/71 69FT) KOHL, MICHAEL - SOF IN GERMAN BAHR, EGON GERMANY, EAST - BERLIN GERMANY, WEST - FOREIGN RELATIONS - GERMAN, EAST UPITN / 69 FT / 16 POS / COLOR/ R39351

WS low angle of a graffiti-covered section of the Berlin Wall. The Wall was erected in 1961 to stop people fleeing the communist regime of East Germany. It divided the city of Berlin itself and became a symbol of oppression and the Cold War. On November 9, 1989 the borders between East and West Berlin were opened and the Wall came down.

Activity at border between American sector and East German side of divided Berlin in 1952

STREET IN BERLIN BESIDE THE BERLIN WALL. MURALS AND GRAFFITI ALL OVER THE WALL. TRAFFIC, CARS ON ROAD. CYCLIST APPROACHES CAMERA AND PASSES BY PAN TO MURAL FEATURING RISING SUN OF JAPAN BREAKING THROUGH BARBED WIRE AND LARGE "BERLIN". WONDERFUL ESTABLISHING SHOT OF DIVIDED BERLIN, EAST AND WEST BERLIN

The Soviets begin construction of the Berlin Wall. Co-production with the BBC.<br/><br/>Film IDs: 3064.21 and 2994.05.

Sequence of shots showing shops and a traditional English home that has been recreated in an exhibition centre in Kiev for the visit of Margaret Thatcher, the shops include Marks and Spencers, Boots and Our Price (BBC News, 160-90-04EC – 09/06/1990 – AEXZ288W)