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.

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...

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 ...

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....

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

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

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...

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

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

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

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

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

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