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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginni...

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker i...

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

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 ...

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

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from th...