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.
On 12 March 1999 Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bronisław Geremek, handed to the United S...
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginni...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniver...
Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenan...
A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compellin...
A documentary about US-led covert actions under the Reagan administration intended to bolster the pe...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...
Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how I...
Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...
The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and t...