Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time, on both sides of the Wall, and from survivors of the communist regimes who recall the lifeline that rock music provided them.

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

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

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

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

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

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

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

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

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

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

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

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from ev...

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

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

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