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.

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of t...

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...

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

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

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...

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

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

Nothing is easy about flying from an aircraft carrier. Based on a popular book by the same name, thi...

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...

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