Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century.

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...
A short documentary feature following young German troops in training,

This episode from the Czech Journal series examines how a military spirit is slowly returning to our...

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...

In this exciting tour of the National Air and Space Museum- Smithsonian Networks puts you in the coc...

The fascinating history of the U.S. Air Force comes to life via vintage footage culled from official...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

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

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bav...

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

For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. The...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern US nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of ...

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

My Vietnam Your Iraq tells the stories of Vietnam veterans and their children who have served in Ira...

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