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Carsten CumbrowskiMoments in History - The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 (2008)

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This movie illustrates the events from summer 1989 until November 9, 1989 in a short documentary with focus on historic accuracy. News and other video images from the most relevant events that lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the German reunification within less than one year afterwards.


More information and video material to this subject can be found at my personal blog.

See the posts: The Berlin Wall History - Lessons Learned and The Berlin Wall and the Walls between us.

You can contact me via this Contact Form or use the mailing address, IM, email or phone, which you can also find there.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: Carsten Cumbrowski
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: Cold War; Berlin Wall; East Germany; Berlin; Iron Curtain; Schabowsky; Politburo; 9.November 1989; GDR; DDR
Contact Information: http://www.cumbrowski.com/contact

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Credits

Concept, Direction and Editor: Carsten Cumbrowski
Music: Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings"

Segments

- Hungary opens border to Austria in early summer 1989; removes border fences in August 1989
- East Germans take refuge in West German Embassies in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw
- Special Trains with Embassy Refugees pass East Germany, Riots
- Demonstrations against the System in Leipzig and Berlin reach one million people and more
- Guenther Schakowsky announces new travel law in front of the international press on November 9, 1989
- People at the Border between East and West Berlin in the night from November 9 - 10, 1989
- Wall openings 1989-1990
- German Reunion on October 3, 1990; New Year 1990 at Berlin Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate