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.

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

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