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 "Great Communicator" -- the 40th U.S. president -- is the subject of this in-depth documentary t...
Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how I...

In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier ...

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

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...

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

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

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...

Nothing is easy about flying from an aircraft carrier. Based on a popular book by the same name, thi...