- I know it’s a touristy thing to do, but I’ve made it all the way to Berlin, and I am going to get my picture taken with a guard at Checkpoint Charlie.
- Checkpoint Charlie is one of the best-known and most frequently visited sights in the city, and appears in just about every spy movie set during the Cold War.
- Venture onsite and learn more about what makes Checkpoint Charlie one of the globe’s foremost decision points.
- 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...
- In the last days of October 1961, American and Soviet tanks took up positions here at the GDR border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie after members of the US...
- Historic remnants, cosmopolitan cafés, and murals springing from the edifices, Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie has evolved immensely from its once-divided days.
- Checkpoint Charlie is one of the most visited sites in Berlin and unfortunately now resembles a bit of a 'Cold War Disneyland'.
- Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West...
- Spoofed in the 1985 action-comedy Gotcha where the young protagonist has to run the gauntlet of Checkpoint Charlie's Obstructive Bureaucrats.
- The big concrete buildings of Checkpoint Bravo are now used by the German Customs Service . Checkpoint Charlie was only a wooden hut in the street.