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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how I...

A remarkable examination of the forces behind the Civil Rights Movement in 1960’s America. Drawing p...

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and t...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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