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The Big Picture The West Berlin Struggle
Title
The Big Picture [electronic resource (video)] : The West Berlin Struggle / National Archives and Records Service.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (30 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 13, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Part of the series The Big Picture.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series focuses on West Berlin's struggle to remain an outpost of freedom in a jungle of communist slavery. Viewers of this National Archives and Records Administration video will see how a dynamic, prosperous city, residing just one hundred miles into Soviet-controlled East Germany, has risen from the rubble of World War II to become a new skyline.
Variant and related titles
West Berlin Struggle
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: National Archives and Records Service, 2008.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Berlin Before and After (1:04)
Allied Powers Meet in Shared Berlin (1:54)
Loss at Polls Angers Soviets (2:07)
Russians Isolate West Berlin (1:57)
West Berlin Airlift (1:55)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1:53)
Airlift Overcomes Adversity (3:11)
Two Currency Policies (2:09)
West Berlin Ramps of Productivity (1:47)
Federal Republic of Germany (2:33)
Thousands Leave East Berlin (2:09)
German Police Block the Brandenburg Gate (2:02)
Berlin Wall Separates Berliners (3:17)
Credits: The Big Picture: The West Berlin Struggle (0:09)
Videorecording number
44998 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
National Archives and Records Service.
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