A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants and eyewitnesses.

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

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...

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

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

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...

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

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

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

The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the m...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

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

A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...

A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports...

Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast...

Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual participants in...

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...