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.

"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...

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

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

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

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 ...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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