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...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

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

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy i...
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of ...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

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

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

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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

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

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

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

Scramble the Seawolves is the unknown story of the US Navy’s first and only Attack Helicopter Gunshi...
Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of t...