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.

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

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

Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a ...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...

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 ...

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