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Title:The Berlin airlift / PBS ; written and directed by Peter Adler, Alexander Berkel, Stefan Mausbach ; production, Udo Jordan, Evelyn Kremer ; a ZDF production in association with ZDF Enterprises ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH.
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ISBN:0793693306
9780793693306
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Published/Created:[Mainz] : Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, ©2007.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Notes:Documentary.
Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American Experience on January 29, 2006.
Special feature: Web links [text feature].
In English and some German with English subtitles; closed captioned.
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Summary:On June 24, 1948, the Cold War began in the war-torn, divided city of Berlin. The Soviets, who controlled all of East Germany and the eastern half of Berlin, blocked all access to the American and British-controlled West Berlin, choking commerce and starving the people. The Soviet goal was to expel the Allied forces, who had long been a thorn in Stalin's side. But Western forces refused to abandon the city. President Harry Truman proclaimed, "We stay in Berlin. Period." To do so would mean attempting the impossible: supplying two million civilians and twenty thousand Allied soldiers with food and fuel -- entirely from the air. The Berlin Airlift officially ended on September 30, 1949. The airlift had lasted 15 months and delivered more than 2.4 million tons of supplies to Berlin. Seventy-nine people lost their lives in the effort, including thirty-one Americans.
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Variant and related titles:American experience (Television program)
- Format:Visual Material
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Credits:Historical consultant, Gerhard Keiderling ; original music, Klangraum ; editing, Bernhard Sehne ; camera, Anthony R. Miller, Jan Prillwitz, Peter Ruppert.
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Performers:Narrated by Joe Morton; commentators, Sam Young, Sybille Griese, Mercedes Wild, Gerhard Bürger, Robert Lochner, Gail Halvorsen, Ken Slaker, Magdalena Schnabel, Hans-Günther Richardi, Peter Zimmerman, John Irvin Eddy, Walter Riggers.
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System details note:DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
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Contents:Occupied Berlin -- Angels in the sky -- Airlift operations -- A city divided -- Love and loss -- Mission accomplished -- Credits.
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Subjects:United States. Air Force--History.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force--History.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force.
United States. Air Force.
Blockade of Berlin (Germany : 1948-1949)
Cold War (1945-1989)
Cold War.
Economic assistance, American--History.
Diplomatic relations.
Economic assistance, American.
Germany (West)
Berlin (Germany)--History--1945-1990.
Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949.
United States--History--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
Germany--Berlin.
Germany (West)
Soviet Union.
United States.
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Genre/Form:Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
History.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Historical television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary--Television series.
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Also listed under:Adler, Peter, 1949- television director.
Berkel, Alexander, television director.
Mausbach, Stefan, television director.
Jordan, Udo.
Kremer, Evelyn.
Morton, Joe, 1947-
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
ZDF Enterprises.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
PBS Home Video.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13509122