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.

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

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

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

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

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

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

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

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

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