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.

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

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

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