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.

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

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

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

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

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

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

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

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of ...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

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