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.
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compellin...
What lies hidden beneath Moscow? Subway palaces full of Soviet propaganda, Stalin's magnificent bunk...
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenan...
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 ...
On 12 March 1999 Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bronisław Geremek, handed to the United S...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniver...
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginni...
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...