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.

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

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...

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

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...