In Popular Culture
- Britain's longest running "techno" club night, based near London, was called "Checkpoint Charlie"
- Steven Van Zandt (E Street band/Bruce Springsteen) has a song titled "Check Point Charlie"
- Mention of Checkpoint Charlie in the Elvis Costello song Oliver's Army
- Mention of Checkpoint Charlie in Series 3 Episode 3 of The Thick of It by character Glenn Cullen
- British Leyland made a German television advert, featuring an Austin Maxi based on a true story of a couple who defected to the West at Checkpoint Charlie in the boot of a Maxi.
- Old CB terminology for a police checkpoint, placed to look for drunk drivers, etc.
- Checkpoint Charlie was the scene of numerous fictional spy swaps in such works as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Checkpoint Charlie was the inspiration for the Call of Duty: Black Ops (First Strike map pack) map "Berlin Wall"
- British spy James Bond (played by Roger Moore) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from the West of Germany to the east.
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