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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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

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

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...

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

Guy Martin honours the Lancaster bomber crews of World War II, as he tries out several onboard roles...

In 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President ...

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...