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.

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

September 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series, the iconic hockey tournament that p...

Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...
You are about to enter the world of double-cross and triple-cross, of information and disinformation...

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

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
A training film for public shelter managers explaining when people should be allowed to leave the sh...

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

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

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic prem...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

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