Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual participants in this riveting program. After an American naval blockade intercepted Soviet submarines on a secret mission to set up a military base in Cuba, the two nations engaged in a tense standoff that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Submariners from both sides talk about the conflict, and viewers get a look inside their subs and the U.S. war room.

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

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

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

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

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

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

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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