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.

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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...

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

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

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

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...

A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...