Declassified

Declassified: The Rise and Fall of the Wall (1x1)

Air date: Nov 08, 2004

For three decades, it symbolized the chasm between East and West, a constantly-simmering focal point of the Cold War. But on November 9, 1989, the long-oppressed citizens of East Berlin broke the first chink in its 96 miles of concrete and barbed wire, signaling the start of one of history's most dramatic political transformations.