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.

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

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...
Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic prem...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...
Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection system...
This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, sho...

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

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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

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

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

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunif...