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.
Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual foo...
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
First transmitted in 1977, this documentary follows three months in the life of the 1st Battalion of...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
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 dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its cons...
The wish was father to the thought: instead of asking Mr. Reagan conventionally worded questions abo...
Powell. McChrystal. McCaffrey. Petraeus. Clark. For the first time, National Geographic Channel gath...
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuse...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...