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.

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...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...
The film emphasizes the importance of safety when using power tools in a workshop. It outlines key s...

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

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.

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

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

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

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

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

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

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

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...

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....

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...