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.

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she ...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

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

Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a ...

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

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

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

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

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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