This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a network of volunteers, makeshift hospitals would be set up, auxiliary police officers would maintain order, and other elements of the civil defense program would be put in place.

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how I...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

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

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginni...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...

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