Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.

Funeral in Berlin
1966
6.4/10

Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
2016
6.9/10

Why We Fight: Prelude to War
1942
6.5/10

Nazi Concentration Camps
1945
7.7/10

Fuck
2006
6.4/10

For Sama
2019
8.2/10

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014
7.8/10

The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
7.5/10

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
7.1/10

Night Will Fall
2014
7.6/10

Naqoyqatsi
2002
6.1/10

Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
2019
6.2/10

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
7.7/10

Salinger
2013
6.4/10

Room 237
2012
6.1/10

Bitter Lake
2015
7.6/10

2000 Meters to Andriivka
2025
8.1/10

Long Shot
2017
7.2/10

Human Flow
2017
6.9/10
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
5.75/10