In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. The CIA crafted a secret program to raise the submarine in 1974. Now after much secrecy, this story can be told, by the men who made it happen and with never-before-seen footage of the actual salvage attempt, and new evidence of the project's successes and failures.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...
This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking governmen...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compellin...
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist time...
Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...
The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without ...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound fr...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...