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.
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its cons...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate th...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
Red Terror documents the soviet occupation of Lithuania and the resistance movements that sprang up ...
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuse...
In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French...
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Ger...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...
A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.