The disastrous first combat patrol of the K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine.

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

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

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

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

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

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

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

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of ...

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is...

The "Great Communicator" -- the 40th U.S. president -- is the subject of this in-depth documentary t...

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

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

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

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

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

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