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.
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald R...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuse...
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus ...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operatio...
Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate th...
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...