The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.

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...

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...

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

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

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

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working ...

Few aircraft have attracted more attention than the ominous black supersonic jet that for years has ...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...

Thirteen intelligence agents who have worked on secret missions for Frances DGSE tell their accounts...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

Documentary - This 1982 film explains the KGB infiltration of America. Who they are, what they are d...

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

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

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