Anti Shah demonstrators protest in Berlin, Germany. Large crowd of Anti Shah demonstrators gathered outside Berlin Opera House (Deutsche Oper). The students protest against the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They hold portraits and masks of Shah. Berlin policemen control the protesting crowd. Student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during this demonstration.
German activist Fritz Teufel (of commune known as Kommune 1) smoking cigar. He turns his head and laughs. A woman’s hand strokes Teufel’s cheek. Fritz Teufel wearing earrings and 1960s hippie culture clothing. Rainer Langhans, casually holding a handgun, sits beside Teufel. Scene changes to show a large crowd of students demonstrate against the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, during his state visit to West Berlin, Germany. West Berlin Police confront an unruly protester. The police forcefully restrain and arrest a student. Paparazzi and TV crew capture photos and footage of Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the Shah, walking by. Water cannon being shot at protesters to control crowd. Police brutally restrain, hit, and drag more protesters. Police and medics crouch beside the body of Free University of Berlin student Benno Ohnesorg, who was shot by police-officer Karl-Heinz Kurras. A Volkswagen Beetle with plate “B WM960” is seen near Ohnesorg. Fritz Teufel appears in a courtroom. Media personnel holding cameras. Fritz Teufel flips through a book. Police push barricade in front of student protesters in West Berlin. Police spray water cannons to drive away protesters in the street. Students protect themselves with umbrellas. Protesters’ confrontation with German police. Police arresting more protesters. Police mounted on horses push back crowd during demonstration.
Speaking before United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946, Bernard Baruch proposes international control of all atomic energy -- the so-called Baruch Plan. Low level aerial view of ruined post World War 2 European city. Goods including heavy equipment, locomotives, being loaded aboard ships to aid in the postwar recovery of Europe (The Marshall Plan). Workers in Western Europe making use of Marshall Plan materials to rebuild their national infrastructures. West European farmers restoring agriculture. View from overflying light airplane of parts of postwar Berlin in 1948. Blocked roads and empty railroad tracks leading from East Germany to West Germany, blocked by the Soviet Union. Barge traffic at standstill due to Soviet actions. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft flying supplies into West Berlin (The Berlin Airlift) during the Soviet blockade of that city. West Berlin citizens watching U.S. transport aircraft bringing fuel, food and other essentials into the isolated city. A C-54 flying low over empty railroad lines, as it prepares to land in West Berlin. Supplies offloaded from a DC-3 ( AKA C-47 or British Dakota) equipped with unusual set of rear cargo doors. Supplies being moved on Tegel Airport with many C-54 aircraft in the background. Numerous C-47 aircraft operating at Tempelhof airport. An East German official opening a barricade as Soviet blockade of West Berlin ends on May 12, 1949, and supply trucks begin to move over roads again. Flags of Western nations flying on high flagpoles. Glimpse of Allied warships underway during the Cold War. Formation of P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight overhead. NATO troops marching and NATO armor on parade. Flashes of heavy artillery firing at night. Korean refugees moving South in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. View of UN Security Council meeting in the absence of Soviet representative. U.S. tanks firing guns and American infantrymen in conflict with North Korea in Korean War. American wounded on stretchers.Delegates of both North and South Korea signing the Korean Armistice Agreement in P'anmunjŏm, on July 27, 1953. A rocket is launched. Images of earth from inside a space craft in orbit. Narrator mentions the first satellite to circle the earth, the soviet Sputnik 1 in 1957. View of Soviet pilots in low pressure altitude chamber. A test subject in an aircraft making a maneuver that allows him to experience "weightlessness." Objects in his cockpit float about. A military rocket launch monitored by arrays of radar. An object being retrieved from space by means of a parachute. A nuclear powered submarine. Rockets on display during a military parade in Red Square, Moscow, the Soviet Union. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber taxiing. More views of rockets seen during a Soviet military parade in Red Square, Moscow.
German activist Rainer Langhans smokes a pipe and talks. Kommune 1 student activists in kitchen. A woman opens a refrigerator in the commune. Rainer Langhans and other activists stand beside a desk. German activist Fritz Teufel smiling and eats a pastry. Student activists working in their headquarters. Posters of Communist leaders Che Guevara and Mao Zedong on display. Fritz Teufel smoking a cigar, sitting with Rainer Langhans. Rainer Langhans playfully points his gun to Fritz Teufel. The two men laugh.