A ‘moving and revealing’ look at life in East Germany

Eric Stange’s 2010 documentary weaves together interviews with world leaders and everyday East Germans. The Wall: A World Divided, directed by Eric Stange. This week in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. No single work of history fully encompasses the enormity of the moment, but this 2010 documentary offers a sense of it, combining interviews with George H. W. Bush, Helmut Kohl, and Mikhail Gorbachev alongside “stories of everyday East Germans that are the most moving and revealing,” a Wall Street Journal reviewer wrote at the time of the film’s release. Watch The Wall: A World Divided where you are.