The Berlin Wall: Escape to Freedom
70 mins
Berlin Wall: Escape To Freedom reveals the stories of courageous East Germans who dared to challenge the authorities and the Berlin Wall in their bid for freedom. From tunnelling under the Wall, to smuggling refugees in a car’s trunk, to flights over the Wall, uncover the details of sensational escape stories. It takes us into the heart of the Death Strip – a lethal zone next to the Wall filled with barbed wire, mines, attack dogs, tank traps, and armed guards - and shows us how authorities learned from each escape to make the Wall stronger and harder to beat. Finally, the Wall that was strengthened over 28 years was opened in one unbelievable night and yet the divisions of generations past still linger today in modern Berlin.
Max Baloian
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Ivy Bier
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Alex Black
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Ryan Borges
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Joe H. Bourguignon
Stasi Guard
Bill Bowles
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Teresa Brown
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Jonathan Burhop
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Sol Benjamin Cohan-Schiff
Reenactor
Sol Crawford
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Jeffery Davis
Egbert Bethke (voice)
Jeremy Eddy
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Nick Epstein
Hubert Hohlbein (voice)
David Guilmette
Hartmut Richter (voice)
Matthew Hazelrig
Ingo Bethke (voice)
Matthew Hazelrig
Stasi Guard #1
Eli Lebowitz
Reenactor
J.D. Nelson
Wolfgang Seiler (voice)
Tilmann Schaal
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Marlon Singleton
Narrator (voice)
Lisa Szczepaniak
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Wendy Walker
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Donovan Watt
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Jenny Watt
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Shirley Tatum
Writer
Dan Bree
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Katherine Covell
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Katherine Covell
Director
Dan Bree
Producer
Katherine Covell
Associate Producer
CarolAnne Dolan
Supervising Producer
CarolAnne Dolan
Executive Producer
Hilke Schellmann
Coordinating Producer
Chris Valentini
Executive Producer
Eli Adler
Cinematography
Bobby Dunn
Cinematography
Tom Kaufman
Cinematography
Andres Alegría
Editor
John B. Ford
Executive In Charge Of Production
Darin Bendall
Graphic Designer
Daniel Cardozo
Graphic Designer
Bob Foresta
Sound
Rick Patterson
Sound
Brandy Brumley
Assistant Editor
Burghard Ciesla
Researcher
Kristen Fleming
Legal Services
Christof Helms
Production Assistant
Dennis Newburne
Finance
Kathryn Porter Pacheco
Manager of Operations
Hana Robleh
Production Assistant
Amanda Abrell
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Silke Bauer
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Stefan Bitterle
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Burghard Ciesla
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Deborah Cohan
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Marion Detjen
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Torsten Diedrich
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Franziska Frenz
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Meredith Goldberg
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Gesa Henselmans
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Alexandra Hildebrandt
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Eva-Maria Klapheck
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Antje Krekeler-Joris
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Jurgen Litfin
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Nelson Maria Nooke
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Montgomery Pfeifer
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Ken Pruchnick
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Heidi Quante
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Steven Schiff
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Hiltrud Schultz
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Doreen Stockdale
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Klaus Von Kreussler
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Monque Weil
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Antje Zicklebein
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