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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Red Terror documents the soviet occupation of Lithuania and the resistance movements that sprang up ...