Editing Berlin Wall (section)

==Related media==
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===Documentaries===
{{Category see also|Films about the Berlin Wall}}

Documentary films specifically about the Berlin Wall include:
*''[[The Tunnel (1962 film)|The Tunnel]]'' (December 1962), an NBC News Special documentary film.
*''[[The Road to the Wall]]'' (1962), a documentary film.
*''Something to Do with the Wall'' (1991), a documentary about the fall of the Berlin Wall by [[Ross McElwee]] and Marilyn Levine, originally conceived as a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its construction.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rossmcelwee.com/somethingtodowiththewall.html |title=Something to do with the Wall |last=McElwee |first=Ross |website=RossMcElwee.com |access-date=29 May 2018 |archive-date=19 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519104725/http://rossmcelwee.com/somethingtodowiththewall.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[Rabbit à la Berlin]]'' (2009), a documentary film, directed by Bartek Konopka, told from the point of view of a group of wild rabbits that inhabited the zone between the two walls.
*''The American Sector'' (2020), a documentary by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez that tracks down the wall segments located in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsfuse.org/222381/film-review-the-american-sector-meditating-on-displaced-fragments-of-history/ |title=The American Sector – Meditating on Displaced Fragments of History |first=Ezra Haber |last=Glenn |date=15 February 2021 |access-date=17 February 2021 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215152427/https://artsfuse.org/222381/film-review-the-american-sector-meditating-on-displaced-fragments-of-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Feature films===
{{Category see also|Films about the Berlin Wall}}

Fictional films featuring the Berlin Wall have included:
*''[[Escape from East Berlin]]'' (1962), American-West German film inspired by story of 29 East Germans that tunneled under the wall<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hoberman |first1=J. |title='Escape From East Berlin,' Reissued Five Decades Later |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/movies/homevideo/escape-from-east-berlin-reissued-five-decades-later.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/movies/homevideo/escape-from-east-berlin-reissued-five-decades-later.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |access-date=18 December 2020 |agency=[[The New York Times]] |date=26 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' (1965), a Cold War classic set on both sides of The Wall, from the [[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold|eponymous book]] by John le Carré, directed by [[Martin Ritt]].
*''The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall'' (1965), Spanish-Mexican co-production.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Gélin |first1=Daniel |title=The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall |date=15 July 1965 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058412/combined |last2=Varela |last3=Arco |last4=Block |first2=Yolanda |first3=Nino Del |first4=Karin |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019113611/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058412/combined |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[Funeral in Berlin (film)|Funeral in Berlin]]'' (1966), a spy movie starring [[Michael Caine]], directed by [[Guy Hamilton]].
*''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]'' (1967), a film featuring a segment centred on a house apparently bisected by the Wall.
*''[[The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz]]'' (1968), a Cold War spy farce about an Olympic athlete who defects, directed by [[George Marshall (director)|George Marshall]].
*''Berlin Tunnel 21'' (1981), a made-for-TV movie about a former American officer leading an attempt to build a tunnel underneath The Wall as a rescue route.
*''[[Night Crossing]]'' (1982), a British-American drama film starring [[John Hurt]], [[Jane Alexander]], and [[Beau Bridges]], based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on 16 September 1979, attempted to escape from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon, during the days of the Inner German border-era.
*''[[The Innocent (1993 film)|The Innocent]]'' (1993), a film about the joint [[CIA]]/[[MI6]] operation to build a tunnel under East Berlin in the 1950s, directed by [[John Schlesinger]].
*''[[Sonnenallee]]'' (1999), a German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s, directed by [[Leander Haußmann]].
*''[[The Tunnel (2001 film)|The Tunnel]]'' (2001), a dramatization of a collaborative tunnel under the Wall, filmed by [[Roland Suso Richter]].
*''[[Good Bye Lenin!]]'' (2003), film set during German unification that depicts the fall of the Wall through archive footage
*''[[Open The Wall (film)|Open The Wall]]'' (2014), featuring a dramatized story of the East-German border guard who was the first to let East Berliners cross the border to West Berlin on [[9 November 1989]].
*''[[Bridge of Spies (film)|Bridge of Spies]]'' (2015), featuring a dramatized subplot about [[Frederic Pryor]], in which an American economics graduate student visits his German girlfriend in [[East Berlin]] just as the Berlin Wall is being built. He tries to bring her back into West Berlin but is stopped by [[Stasi]] agents and arrested as a spy.

===Literature===
Some novels specifically about the Berlin Wall include:
*[[John le Carré]], ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' (1963), classic Cold War [[spy fiction]].
*[[Len Deighton]], ''[[Berlin Game]]'' (1983), classic Cold War [[spy fiction]]
*T.H.E. Hill, ''The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It? – An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://voicesunderberlin.com/DayBefore.html |title=The Day Before The Berlin Wall: Could We have Stopped It? |publisher=Voicesunderberlin.com |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=16 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116055403/http://voicesunderberlin.com/DayBefore.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 2010 – based on a legend told in Berlin in the 1970s.
*John Marks' ''The Wall'' (1999)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/reviews/980920.20norchit.html |title=Cold War Reheated |work=The New York Times |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=8 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208113921/http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/reviews/980920.20norchit.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in which an American spy defects to the East just hours before the Wall falls.
*Marcia Preston's ''West of the Wall'' (2007, published as ''Trudy's Promise'' in North America), in which the heroine, left behind in East Berlin, waits for news of her husband after he makes his escape over the Berlin Wall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marciapreston.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=2 |title=View the author's website |author=Administrator |access-date=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215022336/http://marciapreston.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=2 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Peter Schneider (writer)|Peter Schneider]]'s ''The Wall Jumper'', (1984; German: ''Der Mauerspringer'', 1982), the Wall plays a central role in this novel set in Berlin of the 1980s.

===Music===
Music related to the Berlin Wall includes:
*''[[Stationary Traveller]]'' (1984), a concept album by [[Camel (band)|Camel]] that takes the theme of families and friends split up by the building of the Berlin Wall.
*"[[West of the Wall]]", a 1962 top 40 hit by [[Toni Fisher]], which tells the tale of two lovers separated by the newly built Berlin Wall.
*"[[Holidays in the Sun (song)|Holidays in the Sun]]", a song by the English [[punk rock]] band [[Sex Pistols]] which prominently mentions the Wall, specifically singer [[Johnny Rotten]]'s fantasy of digging a tunnel under it.
*[[David Bowie]]'s "[["Heroes" (David Bowie song)|{{-'}}Heroes{{'-}}]]" (1977), inspired by the image of a couple kissing at the Berlin Wall (in reality, the couple was his producer [[Tony Visconti]] and backup singer [[Antonia Maaß]]). The song (which, along with the [["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|album of the same name]], was recorded in Berlin), makes lyrical references to the kissing couple, and to the "Wall of Shame" ("the shame was on the other side"). Upon Bowie's death, the [[Federal Foreign Office]] paid homage to Bowie on Twitter:<ref>{{cite news |title=David Bowie death triggers tributes from Iggy Pop, Madonna—even the Vatican and the German government |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/death-of-david-bowie-sparks-howls-of-anguish-across-social-media-2016-01-11 |last=Kollmeyer |first=Barbara |date=11 January 2016 |work=[[MarketWatch]] |access-date=23 January 2016 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019113815/http://www.marketwatch.com/story/death-of-david-bowie-sparks-howls-of-anguish-across-social-media-2016-01-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>see also [[#David Bowie, 1987|above]]
*"{{Interlanguage link|Over de muur|nl}}" (1984), a song by the Dutch pop band {{Interlanguage link|Klein Orkest|nl}}, about the differences between East and West Berlin during the period of the Berlin Wall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sweetslyrics.com/bio-Klein%20Orkest.html |title=Klein Orkest biography |publisher=Sweetslyrics.com |access-date=6 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924181756/http://www.sweetslyrics.com/bio-Klein%20Orkest.html |archive-date=24 September 2011}}</ref>
*"Chippin' Away" (1990),<ref>{{YouTube|-UMMJ_JNWAY|Crosby, Stills & Nash 1990 – Chippin' Away}}</ref> a song by Tom Fedora, performed by [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]] on the Berlin Wall, which appeared on [[Graham Nash]]'s solo album ''[[Innocent Eyes (Graham Nash album)|Innocent Eyes]]'' (1986).
*"Berliners", a song by [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]] from his 1990 album ''[[Once (Roy Harper album)|Once]]'' (lyrics include "They built a wall, boys, it stayed up for thirty years"). The song uses a BBC news broadcast describing the fall of the wall.
*"[[Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)|Hedwig and the Angry Inch]]," a [[rock opera]] whose genderqueer protagonist Hedwig Robinson was born in East Berlin and later, living in the United States, describes herself as "the new Berlin Wall" standing between "East and West, slavery and freedom, man and woman, top and bottom." As a result, she says, people are moved to "decorate" her with "blood, graffiti and spit."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/Hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-original-broadway-cast-tear-me-down-lyrics |title=Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Tear Me Down |website=genius.com |access-date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=22 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022052751/https://genius.com/Hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-original-broadway-cast-tear-me-down-lyrics |url-status=live }}{{unreliable source?|date=July 2021}}</ref> (1998)
*The music video for [[Liza Fox]]'s song "Free" (2013) contains video clips of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

===Visual art===
Artworks related to the Berlin Wall include:
[[File:TheDaytheWallcamedown.jpg|thumb|''[[The Day the Wall Came Down]]'' (1996) by [[Veryl Goodnight]], a statue depicting horses leaping over actual pieces of the Berlin Wall]]
*In 1982, the West-German artist ''{{Interlanguage link|Stephan Elsner|de|lt=Elsner}}'' created about 500 artworks along the former border strip around West Berlin as part of his work series ''Border Injuries''. On one of his actions he tore down a large part of the Wall,<ref name=mauerfall>{{cite news |title=Die Mauer als Muse |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-mauer-als-muse/821970.html |work=The Wall fell on July 18th 1982 |date=13 March 2007 |publisher=Lars von Törne in Der Tagesspiegel |access-date=13 March 2007 |archive-date=19 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119001840/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-mauer-als-muse/821970.html |url-status=live }}</ref> installed a prepared foil of 3x2m in it, and finished the painting there before the border soldiers on patrol could detect him. This performance was recorded on video.<ref name=elsnerworks>{{cite web |title=ELSNER's Border Injuries |url=http://www.galerie-son.com/artists/elsner/elsner_works.html |work=artworks & video documentation |publisher=galerie son |access-date=8 October 2011 |archive-date=12 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112222437/http://www.galerie-son.com/artists/elsner/elsner_works.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His actions are well-documented both in newspapers from that time and in recent scientific publications.<ref name=elsnerpress>{{cite web |title=ELSNER |url=http://www.galerie-son.com/artists/elsner/elsner_press.html |work=press archive |publisher=galerie son |access-date=8 October 2011 |archive-date=12 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112230138/http://www.galerie-son.com/artists/elsner/elsner_press.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[The Day the Wall Came Down]]'', 1996 and 1998 sculptures by [[Veryl Goodnight]], which depict five horses leaping over actual pieces of the Berlin Wall.

===Games===
Video games related to the Berlin Wall include:
*''[[The Berlin Wall (video game)|The Berlin Wall]]'' (1991), a video game.
*''[[Ostalgie]]: The Berlin Wall'' (2018), video game by Kremlingames, where the player, playing as the leader of the GDR from 1989 to 1991, can take down the Berlin Wall themselves or as a result of events in the game, or keep the wall intact as long as the country exists.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bähr |first=Sebastian |title=Die DDR überlebt (neues deutschland) |url=https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1142569.ostalgie-die-ddr-ueberlebt.html |access-date=2021-02-17 |website=www.neues-deutschland.de |language=de |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414075405/https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1142569.ostalgie-die-ddr-ueberlebt.html |url-status=live }}</ref>