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...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

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

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

Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...