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.

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

Deep in the frozen winters of Siberia, the world's greatest weapon is discovered -- a golden Sharpie...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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