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.

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

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

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

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

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

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

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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

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

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of ...

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