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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...

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

Scramble the Seawolves is the unknown story of the US Navy’s first and only Attack Helicopter Gunshi...

Mike Brewer sets off on a journey of discovery to find out the story of one of the most remarkable a...

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the...