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.

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

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Farewell Affair" is one of the greatest espionage stories of the Cold War that will result in t...

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....