
In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier that would be extended and become increasingly more sophisticated, a technological counter to each escape attempt. Computer imagery reconstructs how the Berlin Wall grew from a meager obstacle to a 97 mile barrier of concrete slabs, watchtowers and guards.

Clayton Nemrow
Narrator (English)
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November 19, 2009
1h 34m
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Oliver Halmburger
Andrew Solomon
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