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 To purchase a video copy of AFTER THE FALL for home and educational use, contact: Transit Media, telephone: 800/343-5540; fax: 201/652-1973 Websites: Artists for Freedom A site about a travelling exhibition on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, with images of artworks available online. Berlin.de A thorough German site with English-language tourist and other information, including photographic virtual tours of some of Berlin's sites. Berlin Wall Art This site contains photographic documentation of the art on the Berlin Wall, taken six months before the fall. Berlin Wall Today This page contains a list of where one can still find fragments or remnants of the Wall in Berlin. Chris De Witt's Berlin Wall This personal website is devoted to the Berlin Wall with photos, essays and links. CNN Video Almanac: 1989 The CNN Interactive site contains video from November 9, 1989 of the celebration at the Berlin Wall. A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall This far-reaching site contains a map of the sectors of Berlin during its division; the post-war, pre-Wall history of Berlin; the role of the Soviet Union in the fall of the Wall; historic photographs; and other pertinent information. Lonely Planet's Berlin This site from the Lonely Planet World Guide gives a concise history of Berlin. Personal Account of the Fall of the Berlin Wall An eyewitness presents his experience of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with a timeline of the end of Communism in Central Europe and links to related sites. Wall: Photographs by Brian Rose Excellent photographs of the Berlin Wall, of the opening of the border, the spaces left by the destruction of the wall, and the reconstruction that followed. Articles and Publications: Battleground Berlin : CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold War (1999) an inside look at Cold War Berlin by former American and Soviet intelligence officers, George Bailey and Sergei A. Kondrashev, with journalist David E. Murphy Before the Deluge : A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1995) an historical view of Berlin's "Golden Age" by Otto Friedrich Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 (1988) the secret diaries of a Russian princess, Marie Vassiltchikov, who worked in the German foreign office in Berlin during World War II The Berlin Stories (1972) short stories by Christopher Isherwood set in Berlin, which inspired the musical/film Cabaret Berlin Today: Rebirth and Reunification (November 9, 1999) article from Seattle Times about the reunification of Germany Berlin Will Never Forget Those Killed at the Wall (1998) article from a Berlin newspaper about the Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse Faust's Metropolis : A History of Berlin (1999) a 1,000-page history of Germany's most dramatic city, by Alexandra Richie The Ghosts of Berlin : Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (1998) a study of the architecture and urbanism of Berlin through its political history, by Brian Ladd The Ghost of the Wall (2000) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News article on the experiences of East Berliners after the fall of the Berlin Wall Lonely Planet Berlin (2000) travel companion to Berlin with history and other facts in addition to neighborhood guides The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1993) eyewitness account by Timothy Garton Ash of events that toppled communism in Eastern Europe Videos: Berlin: Alexanderplatz (1980) 15 1/2-hour dramatic miniseries by German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, set in Berlin's Alexanderplatz neighborhood Berlin: Pictures of a City (1998) post-Berlin Wall German documentary by Manfred Wilhelms Cabaret (1972) musical by Bob Fosse set in war-time Berlin A Foreign Affair (1948) comedy by Billy Wilder set in war-time Berlin The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) seminal World War II documentary by French filmmaker Marcel Ophuls Triumph of the Will (1934) infamous propaganda film of the Nazi Party rally in Nuremburg, Germany, by Hitler's chosen filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl Wings of Desire (1987) drama by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, set in Berlin with exquisite photography of the city before the fall of the Wall |
