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.

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

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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....

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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...

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

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

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

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Ger...

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operatio...

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