1989 revolution
This gallery - curated under the Watching Videos Like a Historian project - features audiovisual heritage material related to the 1989 revolution.
26 items
Report on the popular revolt against the regime.
A live editorial program co-produced by the National Audiovisual Institute and Polish Television. Artists, journalists, and columnists are invited to discuss Poland’s current cultural and social affairs. In this episode guests of the program mark the anni…
The last presidential election in Roumania has shown that citizens are very tyred of their politicians. There are three million citizens who have emigrated and a majority already believe that they lived better under socialism than under capitalism. What h…
Report on the exodus of citizens of the GDR to the FRG using a visa for tourism in Hungary.
This day is the end of an era, of a world that lived divided into two blocks: the communist and the capitalist. The wall was the symbol of this division and the programme will relive the last hours of that regime. Eduard Sanjuan, TV3 journalist and Valent…
Short story about the revolution from December 1989 and an overview of Kretzulescu Church from Bucharest.
In 2009, the Hungarian public television started a documentary series for the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hungary's change of regime. In remembrance of Hungary's change of regime, and the two decades since passed, the series presents a sel…
Original language summary: Tchécoslovaquie : démission du dirigeant communiste Milos Jakes, manifestation et scènes de joie dans les rues de Prague, témoignages. Conférence de presse d'Alexandre Dubcek aux côtés de Vaclav Havel (leader du "Forum…
Lots of protesters are gathered around TVR, comming from Calea Dorobantilor. The protesters shout, do the victory sign, wave the flag with a hole. The entering of the first protesters in the TVR courtyard. The fraternisation of the army with the protester…
The programme is dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Romanians living in Hungary tell the story of their retrieved memories of the tumultuous and dramatic days of the December 1989 events.
Three miners from Valea Jiuli narrate their experiences from the days of the Revolution.
Croud in the Romanian Television courtyard next to the tower, soldiers, tanks, the round of the demonstrators, soldiers carried on arms, general Chitac near the tower, bus at the Pangrati gate. 2. Excavator and tanks in the Palace Square, wounded soldier…
Original language summary: Révolution de velours en Tchécoslovaquie : reportage consacré au journal "Svobodne Slovo", l'un des premiers quotidiens à avoir pris ses distances avec la ligne officielle. Grève générale et grande manifestation à…
Report broadcast in the current affairs program on the important role played by Rumanian television during the revolution.
Uncut and largely not yet shown shots of anti-regime appearances on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops.
Uncut and largely not yet shown shots of anti-regime appearances in Wenceslas Square in Prague on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the creation of Czechoslovakia. People sing the National Anthem and then are broken up by police and water cannons. A…
Original language summary: Chute du mur de Berlin : ambiance, joie de la population allemande, passages à l'est et à l'ouest... Réactions des Allemands qui vivent ce moment historique.
A policeman from the West and his counterpart from the East meet at the Berlin Wall to discuss work to tear down the barrier.
Original language summary: Rapide présentation du dispositif technique mis en place pour capter et diffuser en direct les événements liés à la chute du mur de Berlin depuis le 10 novembre 1989.
Mini-slot in the form of a dictionary of the most significant events, people and inventions of the 20th century. Each letter introduces a word—i.e., M for mini-skirt, S for the snow storm of 1962, H for hippies, etc. Illustrated with historical archive im…
Berlin – Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; though the wall does not exist physically, urban, economic and social signs of its existence continue to be evident in Germany and post-war Europe.
Newsreader Michael Buerk introduces a Martin Bell report on the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.; Original language summary: -
News show Journal focuses today on the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It portrays people whose lives were changed by the seminal event.
A report on the history of the Berlin Wall and the travel regulations between West and East Germany.
Start of the building of the Berlin Wall; Vopo flight to West-Berlin, Us vice president Johnson talks with Willy Brandt; The United States send more troops to West-Berlin.
Even fifteen years after the fall of the wall there is still no coherent concept of remembrance. There were protests against the rebuilding of the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, where the original never stood.