With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be revealed.

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

A movie about travelling to Great Britain from Sweden by car and exploring that country

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...