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.
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...
Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opt...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the tr...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking governmen...
With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...