The termination of the INF Treaty between the USA and Russia shows how little mutual trust there is between the world powers today. Thanks to this agreement, short- and medium-range nuclear missiles were disarmed and banned at the end of the 1980s. The political situation has worsened again. Even Germany is discussing the development of its own nuclear weapons. Is a new Cold War looming?

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

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

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

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...

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

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

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

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...

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

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. C...

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and O...

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

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

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

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

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

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima,...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...