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.

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...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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....

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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