The story will begin on August 13, 1961, when East Germany closed its borders to West Berlin. A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall ...

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 ...

When the East German government built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to prevent its citizens from leaving, the regime failed to account for the ingenuity and creativity of those willing to risk anything to e ...

It was a very different world in 1962. The Cold War was heating up, made hotter by the construction of the infamous Wall that divided East and West Berlin, which in turn became an iconic symbol all ...

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 ...

Nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell, two men who tried to spirit their East German families to freedom in the West were honoured in a moving ceremony on Wednesday. AFP's Deborah Cole reports on ...

Symbolic of the Cold War, the 155-kilometre concrete wall cut the German capital in half and separated its citizens.

THE PLAQUE at 7 Schönholzer Strasse, in the trendy Prenzlauer Berg district of east Berlin, is easy to miss. Yet it marks one of the most astonishing episodes in the grim history of communist East ...

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 Berliner Unterwelten, or Berlin Underworld Association, is now offering underground tours of the Berlin Wall. The tours, called "Wall Gaps," explore the escape tunnels dug by East Berliners ...

EXCLUSIVE: Telepool’s Global Screen and Elsani & Neary Media are joining forces to develop a television series based on the true stories of the people who dug Tunnel 29, the famed secret passage from ...