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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

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

Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassifi...

In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Opera...

The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the...

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

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