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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...
Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic prem...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...
Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection system...
This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, sho...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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...

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

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