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...

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...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

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

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

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

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

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 ...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she ...

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