Hip Hughes History
The Berlin Airlift Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review
Come get a super fast heaping helping of Containment in this broad based lecture on the 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift.
Professor Dave Explains
John F. Kennedy: The New Frontier (1961 - 1963)
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...
John D Ruddy
Cold War in 9 Minutes
An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the Cold War, Capitalism vs Communism, Red Scare, the Berlin Wall, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.
Mazz Media
What is the Cold War?
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,...
Getty Images
East Berliners escape over Berlin Wall
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...
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Fall of Berlin Wall: East Germans go to West
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...
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Fall of Berlin Wall: East Germans refugees
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)
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East Germans visit west after fall of Berlin Wall
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...
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Berlin Wall: East vs West Berlin Contrasts
/ 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...
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Refugees from East Berlin as wall is built
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...
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International Dance Contest for Children
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...
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MONTAGE Berlin Wall being built / Construction/ AUDIO
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
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Mayor Willy Brandt meets with President Kennedy
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...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter visits Pres. Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of States John Foster Dulles in Washington, DC
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...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
17-year-old Valery Lysikov defects to West Berlin
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...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
German Catholic Congress in Olympic Stadium in West Berlin
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 /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Williams beats out Murchison in dash at the International Military Track Meet at Berlin Olympic Stadium
Title "Track - 100-Meter Record Broken" superimposed over race of sprinters / MS spectators / runners on track preparing for dash, crowd in stands in bg / CU judges lined up dressed alike in striped shirts, crowd in stands in bg / dash...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Ernst Reuter buried in West Germany
Title card: "West Berlin's Final Tribute to Ernst Reuter" / Nighttime views of uniformed men holding torches / With a large crowd behind them; pallbearers carrying Reuter's coffin covered with West Berlin's flag with its bear emblem /...
British Movietone
BERLIN - RUSSIAN ANGLE -
The Russians have prepared a ""no-man's land"" to control the flow of refugees from East to West, but Red troops cross to the Red Army Memorial. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The boundary line between East and West Berlin, with civilians and warning signs
WS Sign reads "You are leaving the American sector" repeated in Russian, German, and French / MS same sign with civilians mainly children and police standing on street corner around sign, downed tree nearby, children running and walking...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
West Berlin Police show
Title superimposed on a stadium with uniformed marchers in the foreground, "West Berlin's 'Finest' Put on Show" / With drummers in the foreground, others pass; a low look at polished boots and jodhpurs; the faces of the marching men /...