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.

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

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

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

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

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...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

Mike Brewer sets off on a journey of discovery to find out the story of one of the most remarkable a...

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

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

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

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

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

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

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