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The Berlin Wall being built
Potdammer Platz: workmen adds more bricks to wall. Guards. The Berlin Wall being built on August 18, 1961 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Atom bomb test ban agreement reached by political leaders
Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, W Averell Harriman representing the US, and Viscount Hailsham representing Britain and other men seated around large table after having accepted the atom test ban agreement for their governments....
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JFK making foreign policy speech about Cuba
JFK speech about Cuba to the American Society of Newspaper Editors / 'Any unilateral American intervention, in the absence of an external attack upon ourselves or an ally, would have been contrary to our traditions and to our...
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Atomic bomb test, (named RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion cloud. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also known...
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First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of a nuclear explosion in the air, from the first Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 18th October 1951. The device of RDS-3 (known by the US as Joe 3) was tested at the Semipalatinsk test...
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening reactions
Street sign indicating 'Brandenburg Tor' Brandenburg Gate as street sign in foreground / Man carrying old Berlin flag (Bear rampant on white background with red bands on either side) as applaud and hoots heard / 4.00am Line of East...
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening reactions
Oberbaum Bridge: Young man waiting impatiently outside border crossing; Side view of young woman looking anxious; Armed East German soldiers arriving; East German youths walk down steps as they return from West and are interviewed (young...
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening reactions
East German border guards standing back, interviews with East Berliners about the Berlin Wall coming down. Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening reactions on November 10, 1989 in East Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening
Line of East German border guards; Border guards standing with people on top of Berlin Wall in background. Fall of the Berlin Wall: border opening on November 10, 1989 in East Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Berlin Airlift
/ Western Allies organize the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin in response to Soviet blockade / General Sir Brian Robertson walking and inspecting airplanes / soldiers loading food and supplies from trucks...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower discusses threat of Communism in 1953 State of the Union address
VS President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers State of The Union address from podium in the well of the US House of Representatives chamber; behind him sit Vice President Richard Nixon and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R-MA);...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
In his 1953 State of the Union address, Pres. Dwight Eisenhower discusses US commitment to defend South Korea
VS President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers State of The Union address from podium in the well of the US House of Representatives chamber; behind him sit Vice President Richard Nixon and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R-MA);...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
United Nations and Communist delegates arrive in Panmunjom, North Korea, for last day of 30-day trial truce
LS helicopter lands in snowy field, mountains in bg / High angle man stands next to car with front passenger side door open and tries to open rear door with some trouble but eventually it opens / MS man walks up snow covered hill, car in...
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CLEAN : Russian President Vladimir Putin lands in Geneva for summit with Biden
Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane lands in Geneva where he is meeting US President Joe Biden at a tense summit, where ghosts of the Cold War will hover over modern-day US concerns about Russian cyber attacks and what the White...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
In 1954, South Koreans protest the pullout of American forces fearing abandonment in Seoul
VS protesters sit on ground outside bldg with US seal over door, three US soldiers stand in doorway, people walk by / jeep drives toward camera with elderly woman holding onto it, walking and pleading with driver, protest signs in bg /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
POW exchange between North Korea and UN Allied Command Forces in Munsan, South Korea in August 1953
Title: "First Films: P.O.W. Exchange!" superimposed over LS truck convoy on ridge / High angle Panmunjom UN receiving center / CU sign "Welcome Gate to Freedom" / High angle crowd of soldiers, MPs, military officials behind open military...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Exteriors of Peace Pagoda with shots of North Korean peace conference negotiating team
High angle shot three small bldgs, center one the Peace Pagoda where Korea Peace Conference negotiations are taking place, MPS guard the bldg, a few soldiers walk the grounds / high angle three cars parked outside bldg / MS North Korean...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
France, the US, and the UK agree to support South Korea if North Korea becomes aggressive again
Title: "Big Three Agree on Korea Policy" superimposed over Dulles, Bidault and Gascoyne-Cecil at press conference table / US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault talking at table before press...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
In November 1953 Allied and Communist forces meet in Panmunjom, North Korea to discuss Korean peace conference
US Chief Negotiator Arthur Dean in Panmunjom exits Peace Pagoda past MPs and enters car, other men exit behind him / Dean and two other men in car as it pulls away / MS three Korean men with reporters around them walk toward camera...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Marines fire artillery guns at attacking Communist forces in South Korea
Title card: "Report on Korea" / Title: "Marine Guns Hammer at Attacking Reds" superimposed over firing artillery guns / LS marines load and fire artillery gun / MS from behind marine fires artillery gun, camouflage netting overhead / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US negotiator Arthur Dean and North Korean negotiators at table in Panmunjom, discussing peace conference
VS Communist and Allied negotiators standing at opposite sides of table / MS side view of US chief negotiator Arthur Dean, third man to the right, standing at table / MCU side rear view Dean / negotiators sit / LS Dean looking very stern...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The US and UK vote yes and USSR votes no in UN Political Committee vote on US proposal for Korean Peace Conference
Title card: "U.S. News" with Warner Pathe News logo and silhouette of cameraman and movie camera / Title: "U.N. Showdown on Korean Peace Parley" superimposed over UN General Assembly in session / WS assembly in session / MCU man bangs...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Asst State Secretary Robertson returns to US after convincing South Korean President Rhee to sign Korean Armistice Agreement
Title: "Robertson Returns from Rhee Talks" superimposed over Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson deplaning / MS Robertson shaking hands with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on tarmac / MS Robertson, Dulles and other man...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Allied negotiators and North Korean negotiators at table discuss Korean peace conference
MS men taking notes at table in fgd in Peace Pagoda, Allied Forces negotiators with backs to camera at table with North Korea negotiators in bkgd / MS side view down long center of table of negotiators / Pan standing North Korean...