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.

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

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

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

This commemorative video examines the life and political career of the late Ronald Reagan, America's...

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among ...