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.

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

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

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the Unite...

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...

In 2008, German U- boat U-455 was discovered off the coast of Italy. 400 feet down, the submarine st...

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

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

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

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that ...

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

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

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

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

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

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

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