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 (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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...