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Berlin, Germany - 9 November, 2014

1. Various of guests arriving for ceremony including including Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (blue tie), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Parliament President Martin Schulz

2. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, (maroon tie) greeting guests as they arrive

3. Tilt down from chandeliers to ceremony

4. From left to right: Gorbachev, Wowereit, Merkel and Schulz seated at ceremony, UPSOUND (English) Recording of historic soundbite by former US President Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". Gorbachev nodding as he listens to the recording

5. Wide of ceremony

6. Pan of audience members including, from right to left: Merkel, the former president of Poland Lech Walesa, Schulz, Wowereit and Gorbachev

7. Wide of ceremony, UPSOUND (English) "AP Network News, Germany opens the doors to the West."

8. Tilt down from chandeliers to ceremony, orchestra assembled on stage

9. Wide of ceremony, conductor walking on stage

10. Crowd clapping

11. Various of conductor and orchestra, AUDIO: Music

12. Crowd clapping

13. Conductor bowing

14. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit speaking on stage

15. Close of Gorbachev listening to Wowereit as he talks about the former Soviet leader, crowd start clapping

16. Various of crowd applauding Gorbachev; who receives a standing ovation

17. Gorbachev shaking hands with various guests, including Merkel whose hand he raises into the air

18. SOUNDBITE (German) Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament:

++SOUNDBITE PART OVERLAID BY CUTAWAYS OF CEREMONY++

"Everywhere in Europe, nationalistic prejudices flare up again, populists campaign again, other people with crude paroles, they stir up hatred of Europeans against Europeans. The propagandists of nationalism are riding the wave again. Twenty-five years after we teared down walls where people were killed for wanting freedom, they are calling for new borders due to problems, which, for sure, exist, but are resolvable. Will we accept that new walls and borders are built in Europe? Let's say it clear, the right to travel and live anywhere in Europe is the biggest achievement of European unification. It is exactly this right which was denied to people for a long time."

19. Schulz standing at lectern, audience applauding

19. Exterior of Konzerthaus Berlin where event was held

European leaders old and new attended a special ceremony in Berlin on Sunday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Among the distinguished guests were former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was instrumental in ending the Cold War.

In 1987, he was famously told by then-US President Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall".

On the night of 9 November, 1989, thousands of East Berliners streamed through the once-closed border crossings after communist authorities caved in to mounting pressure and relaxed travel restrictions that had prevented their citizens from going to the west for decades.

Gorbachev was honoured at the ceremony for his role in the wall's demise and received a standing ovation.

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and European Parliament President Martin Schulz were among those to speak at the event, which was held at the Konzerthaus, a concert hall in the German capital.

Schulz called on European leaders to take heed of the lessons learned from Berlin's divide.

"Let's say it clear, the right to travel and live anywhere in Europe is the biggest achievement of European unification," he said.