Desc: Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed: Directed by Ania Poullain-Majchrzak, Bill Thomas. With Tim Hardy, Adam Kellett-Long, Anne Applebaum, Stefan Wolle. On the morning of August 13th,1961, the citizens of Berlin woke up to discover their capital had been split in two. In the dead of night, one of Europe's largest cities had been divided by the beginnings of what the world would come to know as the Berlin Wall. Reuters journalist, Adam Kellet-Long, saw tensions rise across the city throughout the summer of '61 and exposed this event to the world.