In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier that would be extended and become increasingly more sophisticated, a technological counter to each escape attempt. Computer imagery reconstructs how the Berlin Wall grew from a meager obstacle to a 97 mile barrier of concrete slabs, watchtowers and guards.

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how I...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

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

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

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

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

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

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

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.

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

Deep in the frozen winters of Siberia, the world's greatest weapon is discovered -- a golden Sharpie...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...