This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides information to shelter occupants, can keep them busy and calm during nuclear armageddon. This film was produced as the U.S. Government began to shift from promoting privately-owned "family" fallout shelters to the concept of large, public shelters.

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

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

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

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.

The smallest of sparks can lead to the largest of explosions. Such is the case of the Atomic Bomb an...

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

The disastrous first combat patrol of the K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear miss...

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...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and t...

Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's ...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...

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

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

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