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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...

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

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...