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 the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 3...
East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape th...
When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in ...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
On 12 March 1999 Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bronisław Geremek, handed to the United S...
These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...
In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the west...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
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...
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
What lies hidden beneath Moscow? Subway palaces full of Soviet propaganda, Stalin's magnificent bunk...
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compellin...
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenan...
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniver...