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.

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

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

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

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

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

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

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

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