M-48 tank at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing between West Berlin and East Berlin during Berlin Crisis. Three United States Army tour buses at crossing. United States Army soldiers standing on the West Berlin side. Street sign reads 'Friedrichstrasse'. Tilt down to the three buses at the curb. Buses enter East Berlin area. American soldiers standing near Checkpoint Charlie at edge of American Sector. People standing near border. M-48 tank and M-59 APC in street. Scene of East sector. United States soldiers at .30 cal machine gun in doorway. Hands of gunner handling cartridge belt.
Life of Americans in enclave in West Berlin. American children at United States Army community school in West Berlin. American music being played on radio as youth dance to rock and roll tunes. American soldiers on duty outside the United States Headquarters in West Berlin. In East Berlin soldiers including Russian comrades march and salute. Nikita Khrushchev arrives at an airport in Berlin and greets East German leader Walter Ulbricht with an embrace and hand shake. East Berliners move as refugees to refugee camps in the western half of Berlin, to escape East German communist rule. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders pounding fists on a table at a diplomatic gathering.
Construction of the Berlin Wall underway in between East Berlin and West Berlin. East German workers building the wall. Citizens wave to loved ones across the blockade. A man looks out his window at the Berlin Wall. Boarded up buildings on the line of the Berlin Wall. Pillboxes where East German forces watch for escape attempts. Wreaths and flowers setup in memorial to people who have died trying to cross the Berlin wall blockade. View of the bullet-riddled Brandenburg Gate, still heavily damaged from World War II.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet politicians. Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro leaves with their entourage. The Brandenburg Gate as seen from the West Berlin side at the height of the Cold War. Barbed wires on the border of East and West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall. East German soldier guards the border between the two Berlins. East German guard Konrad Schumann jumps over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun as he escapes to West Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Schumann runs towards and boards a West Berlin police van. Host or narrator of the film shows photographs of Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev and the “Leap into Freedom” photo by West German photographer Peter Leibing. “The communists are the true colonialists, as a matter of fact.” The narrator said as the show reaches its conclusion.