Websites
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cold War linked to everything else you ever wanted to know about the Cold War.
The BBC archive of everything Berlin including pictures, videos, and interviews. And in English, not German as you might expect.
Need to go back and figure out where it all began? Teacher demanding that you understand the cause and effect of, like, everything in history? Yeah, we can help you with that.
So, there's this great story about how the world almost ended and then didn't because people decided at the very last possible minute to calm down and not kill everyone and everything. It's called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Movie or TV Productions
As the Berlin Wall is going up Tom Hanks tries to save some people because he's the only nice guy left in a cold, Cold War world.
A family tries to recreate East Berlin after the wall comes down—this is a film that finds humor in former communist oppression
Articles and Interviews
JFK's famous phrase is investigated.
Video
There isn't really camera footage of the Berlin Wall going up, but you can definitely see it coming down. In 1989 basically every journalist in the world went to Berlin and watched as Germans started smacking the wall with hammers and other blunt objects. Then they got something to drink, climbed on top of the wall, and had a party.
Audio
Listen to or watch (or both) the actual speech.
Images
Photo of Kennedy about to give the "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
Kennedy's notecards from the "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech—he wrote out foreign words phonetically.
The crowd at the "Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech seen from the air.
A map showing the four sectors of Germany and of Berlin.
A map of Berlin showing the sectors and how the wall surrounded the city.
Diagram of the wall and surrounding area details about the wall, the "Death Strip," and how it was patrolled.