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.

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 ...

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

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

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

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...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

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

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

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

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produce...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

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

Deep in the frozen winters of Siberia, the world's greatest weapon is discovered -- a golden Sharpie...

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