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.
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.
Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate th...
Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opt...
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 t...
Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of t...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Ger...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
The Three Musketeers is a legendary work, whose heroes have rocked multiple generations. These ficti...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
Looking back on the creation of the Vietnam Memorial, this Emmy-nominated documentary chronicles the...
In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier ...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...