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.

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

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

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

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

A sociological portrait of the United Kingdom after the historic Brexit vote of 2016. A funny, somet...

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...

The Queen And The Crown a tribute: A feature length tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the U...
An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the Wes...

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

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

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

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...