Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. On November 9, 30 years will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

At midnight on this day in 1961, units of the East German army began to close the border between East and West Berlin. Troops and workers tore up streets running alongside the border to make them ...

On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed wandered ...

On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as “Barbed Wire Sunday,” marking a peak in the era of the Cold War. It felt like a ...

Walls, like those of Hadrian and Maginot, do not have a good reputation, and Taylor (Dresden) has written a superb narrative of the rise and fall of the monstrous one that scarred Berlin between ...

I oversee sustainability coverage and curate the Daily Dozen. Nov 08, 2019, 07:21am EST Updated Nov 11, 2019, 08:10am EST The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just represent the destruction of the ...

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years. Today, Nov. 9, marks the 30th anniversary of when it began to come down. It may be hard to imagine, a generation later, what a momentous event that was and why the ...

Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls ...