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.
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...
In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. The...
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 19...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brande...
Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opt...
From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry betwee...
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...