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1) Wall
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Determined to reunite with his father, who is in West Germany, a young boy in East Germany digs a tunnel, and, helped by a kind-hearted soldier, leads his family across the border to his father.
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The forerunner of the wall-the blockade of Berlin-was imposed by the Soviets in response to the introduction of a new currency in West Germany; and the fall of the wall, ultimately, was due to the pressure of that currency and what it could buy. This program covers the Airlift of 1949, the sealing off of crossing points in East Berlin in 1961, and the construction of the wall proper in 1962. The program covers the history of the wall: its erection,...
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On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the Berlin Wall to life, highlighting the partition of Berlin after WWII, the cold war tensions between the US and the USSR that led to the building of the wall, and the anti-communist pressures that led it to fall. Readers will understand the significance behind this event through text and clips of the event itself via the Capstone 4D augmented reality app.
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Some walk, some ride, some are born on the way, and many others will die along the "Road to the Wall." This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series shows the struggle many make on their journey to escape Communism's hold on Europe, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration tells the startling and ominous history of Soviet Communism and its increase during the past half...
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"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
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When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
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Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East -- with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled Eastern side. Then, just a month ago, Marta's brother became a victim of schiessbefehl, the standing order to fire upon anyone who dared pass into the West. With her family and nation both fractured, Marta will soon be faced with a promising -- but dangerous -- opportunity....
11) Winter work
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"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...
12) Berliners
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A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present. Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can't hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family....
14) The Berlin Wall
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Provides an in depth examination of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany.
15) The Berlin Wall
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Traces the history of the Berlin Wall, describing why it was built to divide East and West Berlin and what life was like during the twenty-eight years it stood, and examining how the wall relates to the Cold War, and other conflicts.