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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...