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The Wall A World Divided 2010 HDTV XviD FQM

The most memorable symbol of the revolution that swept across Europe two decades ago is the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall after 28 years. The Wall — A World Divided tells those dramatic events from the perspective of ordinary East Germans whose lives were caught up in the wheels of Cold War politics. And it presents the lesser-known story of how the autumn of 1989 set the stage for three world leaders — George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl — to come together and guide the completely unanticipated spiraling series of events that ended the Cold War.

Our story starts when Berliners woke on the morning of August 13, 1961 and were stunned to find their city cut in two by a barrier of barbed wire and concrete blocks. No longer could East Germans leave their country by simply crossing the border into West Berlin as millions had between 1949 and 1961. Instead, they would have to find a way to escape under, over, or through the heavily guarded Wall. Many succeeded, but hundreds of others died trying.

We hear the suspenseful story of Rudolph Mueller, a young father in 1961 who for months after the Wall went up could see his wife and two sons only by climbing a platform on the west side and waving. By June of 1962 he had a daring plan: he would dig a tunnel under the Wall from west to east — tunnel into East Berlin — and bring his family out.