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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

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

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

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

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

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

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy i...

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

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