Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US-born Peter Grimes speaking in West Berlin after smuggling his two stepdaughters out of Communist East Germany
Card: "Paramount News issue no 61" / title card: "Paramount News" / title card: "From Berlin . . . A Story of victory for freedom" / street in West Berlin / Brandenburg Gate / Grimes standing with his German wife, Irmgard, and her two...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Premiere of movie "Strategic Air Command" at Fifth International Film Festival in West Berlin
Title "Berlin - Premiere at International Film Festival" superimposed over flags of different nations on front of building / crowd in front of movie theater / sign saying in German "International Film Festival Berlin 1955" on moving...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Secretary of State Dean Acheson visits West Berlin
Title card: "Berlin - West's support reaffirmed by Acheson" / plane carrying US Secretary of State Dean Acheson taxiing at airport after landing / Acheson coming down steps from plane / Acheson riding in open car down street escorted by...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Harry Truman's daughter Margaret Truman visits West Berlin's City Hall
Margaret Truman's car arriving at office of Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin / CU Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, being escorted up steps by army officer / Truman in mayor's office / CU Truman being presented with a...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Uprising in Communist East Berlin
Crowd gathered on street corner / people milling around on sidewalk, policemen among them / crowd gathered on street corner / crowd gathered on sidewalk in front of stores / crowd milling about in front of building, haze of smoke in the...
Bloomberg
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 25 Years Later
Nov. 7 -- November 9th marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Bloomberg's Hans Nichols reflects on the history of the wall and what has changed in the years since the wall was opened, re-unifying East and West...
Hearst Metrotone News
East Germans escape into West Berlin during the Cold War.
East Germans escape into West Berlin during the Cold War.
Bridgeman Arts
US Vice President Lyndon Johnson and General Clay in West Berlin, greeted by cheering crowds, 1961
Lyndon Johnson shakes hands as he walks through dense, enthusiastic West Berlin crowd. Track back presidential car driving down the street in motorcade. More crowds waving (LS) and people clapping (CU). Banners. People in the crowd...
Bridgeman Arts
US Vice President Lyndon Johnson addresses West Berliners and meets with Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer.
Overhead long shot of crowd gathered and waving in Berlin. Children holding letters that say Freiheit (liberty). Vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson adresses the West Berlin population on 19th August 1961. Lyndon Johnson gets off the plane...
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin post WWII - communism, Walter Ulbricht, refugee camps, Berlin at demarcation line, 1945
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Cold War. Eastern Germany, Berlin. Brandenburg gate. Military parade in Eastern Germany, Walter Ulbricht (w/out sound) making speech, meeting the parade. Berlin 1945, Soviet army, fall of Berlin. Burning...
Curated Video
RR7750B HEROIN PROBLEM AND CIGARETTE SMUGGLING
Heroin addiction has become a serious problem in
West Berlin, where customs' problems are letting the
deadly drug be smuggled into the city in huge
quantities. A different type of smuggling is hitting the
local authorities in the north...
Curated Video
Sport, Vietnam, West Berlin
UCLA Wins Second Straight Title
The NCAA playoffs at Portland, Oregon see top-ranked Michigan toppled by UCLA, 91-80.
US Policy
The President projects America's policy on Vietnam in a speech at John Hopkins University. Mr. Johnson says...
Hearst Metrotone News
Soldiers erect barbed wire fences to divide East and West Berlin.
Soldiers erect barbed wire fences to divide East and West Berlin.
Bridgeman Arts
Post-WWII Germany, Marienfelde refugee camp, contrast of the hardship in West Berlin and the wealth in East Berlin
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Cold War. Eastern Germany, East Berlin, poverty, remains of WW2, bombed buildings, rubble. Street scenes. Berlin zoo. Military presence in East Berlin, tanks. Leisure in West Berlin, people swimming in...
Curated Video
City out of Darkness
Story 8, City out of Darkness, 306.03578, 1950, b/w, sound
04:38:04 Rebuilding Western Berlin electric power plant and its importance in the city's economic and political struggle against Communist domination.
04:38:19- Neon lights in...
Curated Video
RR8135A THE BERLIN WALL 20 YEARS ON
Background to Story: The Berlin Wall is now 20 years old. The East Germans began the
physical isolation of West Berlin on 13th August 1961, partly with the intention of
preventing a flood of their citizens leaving for the West. This...
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin divided, 1961 - Guards at the Berlin Wall, East Berliners look towards West Berlin, properties abandoned.
ECU of barbed-wire on the Berlin Wall. A guard in the background at the Brandenburg gate. A family with children talking to the guards on patrol in the space between East and West Berlin. People standing, waiting on a pavement. LS of the...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948
Supply trucks stopped on rainy road / wooden pole barricade in front of sign 'Berlin' and young boys looking through barricade / military officers with Volkswagen Beetle behind barricade / dirt barricade on street / man carries bicycle...
Bridgeman Arts
Inhabitants at the Mariensfelde Refugee Transit Camp in Germany, US Vice President Lyndon Johnson visits and greets cheering crowd, 1961
The Mariensfelde Refugee Camp (4 millions have fled East Berlin). Children, families and the elderly receive rations, soup is served. Lyndon Johnson walks through hopeful crowd in Mariensfelde. Leaving the camp from his open-top car, the...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Berlin: Hartmut Richter a hero of the former GDR
CLEAN : Berlin: Hartmut Richter a hero of the former GDR
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Meet the Berlin Wall tunnel digger saved by Stasi hero
To save his friends and reunite his family Boris Franzke dug seven tunnels from West Berlin to East Berlin a risky project in the face of Stasi control (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
Berlin Momper Interview Part 2
Berlin: 1989 Momper money / Momper interview / Band - Kings regiment / Chipping / Kites
Berlin Momper Interview
Curated Video
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fifteenth anniversary of the berlin wall
the thirteenth of august 1961 was the day the...