Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the Soviet Union continued with the Western countries, and especially the US, so that their high priority was to tame down, establish relations and negotiate with the Americans.

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

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

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

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

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

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

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

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

Deep in the frozen winters of Siberia, the world's greatest weapon is discovered -- a golden Sharpie...

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.

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...