BERLIN (AP) — An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s ...
BERLIN — “It was a very touching moment. It brought back memories of a time when as a young man I had sworn to fight the wall.” Those were the words of Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel, a 73-year-old retiree ...
In their unceasing attempts to escape to freedom, East Berliners have often taken the underground route. But last week the world learned of the biggest, most elaborate tunnel yet built beneath the ...
Nov 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009Updated May 2, 2013 0 Twenty years after the Berlin Wall started coming down, the tunnels that had offered a Cold War escape route have become a popular tourist attraction. (2 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Thompson‘s Cross Creek Pictures has teamed with Jay Kinra‘s JKIN Films to produce Dig. Black List scribe Cody Brotter has been set to write a geopolitical thriller inspired by the ...
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham (“Crip Camp”) is at work on her next documentary — “Tunnel 29,” about a secret escape tunnel built under the Berlin Wall in 1962. The film, co-produced by NBC ...
Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass will be taking the helm on new Berlin Wall drama The Tunnels. The Captain Phillips director will take on the story, which has been adapted for film from a book ...
The LA Rams and Kansas City Chiefs’ game in Berlin in the shadow of the Cold War remains one of the strangest and most ...
The night of 9 November 1989 was undoubtedly one of the most dramatic of the 20th century. The Berlin Wall in Germany – the armed border that had separated citizens of East and West Berlin since 1961 ...