Hasselhoff vs. The Berlin Wall (2014)
• September 1st, 2014 • 0h 43min
Documentary
Overview
David Hasselhoff, better known for his roles in “Knight Rider” and “Baywatch” released a song titled, “Looking for Freedom” the year before the Berlin Wall came down. He performed it on top of the Berlin Wall to a million people during the biggest New Year's Eve party Germany had ever seen. Twenty five years later, David revisits the now-reunited capital, investigating what is left of the Wall, and explores what it meant in the context of the Cold War dividing Communism in the East from democracy in the West. Along his journey he meets extraordinary people who dreamt of freedom and risked their lives trying to overcome the dreaded Berlin Wall.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Coluche, une époque formidable
Released on: 2021-06-11
Documentary, TV Movie
Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.
The Joy of ABBA
Released on: 2013-12-12
Documentary, Music
Combining European musical influences, perfect production and lyrics of love and loss, ABBA made us ...
Miss Americana
Released on: 2020-01-31
Documentary, Music
A raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time during a transfor...
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
Released on: 2025-06-13
Music, Documentary, History
Best known for their megahit ’80s anthem "Don't You (Forget About Me)”—made famous in John Hughes’ T...
Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow
Released on: 1956-11-07
Documentary
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...
ABBA-dabba-doo
Released on: 1976-10-27
Documentary, Music, TV Movie
This first documentary about the pop group ABBA was made around the time of the release of their fou...
The Atomic Cafe
Released on: 1982-03-17
Documentary, History
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
The Helsinki Effect
Released on: 2025-02-21
Documentary, History
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but ...
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Released on: 2019-01-08
Documentary, TV Movie
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...
Disintegration: An Album, a Band, a Generation
Released on: 2024-12-20
Documentary, Music
Over the course of a fifty-year career, the British band The Cure has released fourteen highly succe...
Last to Know
Released on: 2006-02-11
Documentary
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
Vernon, Florida
Released on: 1981-10-08
Documentary
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely ecce...
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Released on: 2002-09-11
Documentary, Music
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to...
NUKED
Released on: 2023-10-22
Documentary, History
The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold Wa...
Maria's Story
Released on: 1991-01-18
Documentary
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Released on: 2019-10-01
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...
Stripper
Released on: 1985-10-21
Documentary
A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own...