When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for help from the Baltic States were met with silence from the international community at large, two small nations – Iceland and Denmark – answered the call, motivated by the personal connections of their foreign ministers, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson and Uffe Elleman Jensen.

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

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

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

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

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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

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

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

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

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

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

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

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...