- British spy James Bond (played by Roger Moore) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from West Berlin to East.
- There was also Checkpoint Alpha and Bravo, but Checkpoint Charlie was significant in that only foreigners were allowed to cross through it.
- This played a part in giving Checkpoint Charlie a mythological status and regarded as a meeting point for spies and other mysterious people.
- Checkpoint Charlie was the best known Berlin Wall crossing point between East & West Berlin during the Cold War (1961-1989).
- Checkpoint Charlie is kind of one of them. Of course most of the border installations are gone – but there is still the little booth in the middle of the street...
- checkpoint-charlie-soviet-us-tanks-1961. ... Checkpoint Charlie. Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin.
- Checkpoint Charlie, so called by the Western Allies, was the most famous crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War era and is the site...
- Ob zu privaten oder geschäftlichen Anlässen, die zentrale Lage in Berlin Mitte, nur rund 500 Meter von der U-Bahnstation Kochstraße/Checkpoint Charlie...
- checkpoint-charlie. However, all I saw was just a lot of tourists posing by the “guards” at the hut at the border between East and West Berlin.
- The Checkpoint Charlie apartments was a project for the International Bauausstellung IBA Berlin 1987, it was to house the customs officials and allied forces.