Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications System in Alaska. Introduces the people and geography of the new state as well as the Western Electric radio-relay system, which links far-flung military sites, alert stations, and missile-warning facilities. Ralph Caplan praised the film's "intrinsically dramatic and highly photogenic" portrayal of communications equipment.

Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...

The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s...

With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
The film features a meeting led by Dave Taylor, the shelter manager, discussing the protocols and re...
A training film for public shelter managers explaining when people should be allowed to leave the sh...
A man named Walt who has recently completed building a fallout shelter in his home, a project initia...

In a few years, technology will merge with our bodies in ways that today seem unimaginable, and will...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...
Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic prem...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...
This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, sho...

How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experien...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...

Lurking under the sea is a global web of fibre optic telecommunication cables, the plumbing of the i...