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.

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

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

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...

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the...