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 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...

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

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

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

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

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

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...