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

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

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

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...

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

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

The fascinating history of the U.S. Air Force comes to life via vintage footage culled from official...

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

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.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...