On Monday, August 8, 2011, at 9:00 p.m., Houston PBS – Channel 8 – will show the first part of the two-hour documentary that first premiered in June 2010.
The most memorable symbol of the revolution that swept across Europe two decades ago is the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall. Soon after, East and West Germany were reunified, and in the ensuing months the almost unthinkable happened: the Soviet Union was dismantled. THE WALL – A WORLD DIVIDED tells that story from the unique perspectives of three world leaders — Helmut Kohl, then Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, then General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and George H.W. Bush, then President of the United States. They were at the epicenter of that remarkable series of events, when the face of Europe changed almost overnight. In this documentary they tell the story of how history unfolded. (more…)
