What was West Berlin like just before the wall fell? When in West Berlin, how obvious was the wall at the time?<br/>
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 1

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to the people of West Berlin, calling upon the Soviet Union to tear down the wall that divides the city.

Come get a super fast heaping helping of Containment in this broad based lecture on the 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift.

John F. Kennedy's presidency was a turning point in American history, both in terms of what he represented, as well as his assassination, which shocked the world. In many ways, America never recovered, and would never find the optimism...

An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the Cold War, Capitalism vs Communism, Red Scare, the Berlin Wall, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.

This live-action video program is about the word Cold War. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Cold War through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...

German chancellor warns against divisions three decades after historic event that led to reunification.

Crossing the Berlin Wall / cemetery with dogs and barbed wire fencing / men on the back of a truck pulling a ladder up the side of the Berlin Wall / Stanislaus Gefroerer, on opposite side of wall places his ladder against the other and...

Richard von Weizsacker (West German President) meeting East German guards at the Berlin Wall / Various of von Weizsacker shaking hands with East German border guards / East German people queuing, including children / Sergeant Steven...

High angle view of British refugee centre as partitioned areas seen / Walter Momper (Mayor of West Berlin) interviewed. Fall of Berlin Wall: East Germans refugees on November 13, 1989 in West Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

East Germans scramble for free food handouts / packed street with crowds of East Germans / People milling around new BMW luxury cars in showroom, boys touch motorcycle, man admiring new car / East German refugees wishing to stay in the...

/ tall wide building with bricked up windows / CU of the Berlin Wall going through the city / people living life, traffic on West Berlin side and nothing on the other / CU of wall and the barrier in front of it. Berlin Wall: East vs West...

CU Reichstag in West Berlin / soldiers guarding the wall with dogs and guns / armored car drives past / soldier removing barbed wire from top of wall / soldiers stacking bricks of a new wall / machinery moves large slabs of wall into...

Two young male refugees standing with blankets wrapped round shoulders / queues of refugees / soup handed out / young woman interviewed - she had jumped through barriers as Berlin Wall was being built to get to West. Refugees from East...

Teenagers dancing ballroom style during an international dance contest in West Berlin / serious seated audience watches, judges stand at the edge of the dance floor / teens dancing elegantly in formal clothes until one couple slips and...

People putting up barbed wire as initial Berlin Wall is built/ Dragline dumping dirt during construction of ditch/ Guard pacing beside destroyed buildings and barbed wire of Berlin Wall/ Guards walking in ditch along barbed wire fence

Mayor of West Berlin Willy Brandt meets with President Kennedy / outside the White House side entrance, car containing Mayor Brandt pulls to a stop in front of a small crowd / pressmen with cameras crowd around the mayor / President...

Robert Kennedy in motorcade with Willy Brandt / looks at Berlin Wall / huge crowd at rally / Robert Kennedy at podium to give speech. Robert Kennedy visits West Berlin on February 24, 1962 in West Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

Title "Ernst Reuter meets Eisenhower and Dulles" superimposed over close shot of West Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter, invited to US by International Rescue Committee / two shots of US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Reuter sitting...

Title superimposed on a young Russian defector, "He chooses Freedom...Son of Soviet Flier Flees to West" / Seated teenaged defector Valery Lysikov with men in suit; he chats with an older man / Lysikov looks at vehicles while chewing gum...

Card: "Paramount News issue no 4" / title card: "Outpouring of faith in Berlin" / title "Catholics from two zones at outdoor rally" superimposed over procession of Catholic clergy moving along on field in stadium underneath large cross /...