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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

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

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...