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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic prem...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...
Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection system...
This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, sho...

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

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

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

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunif...