S4E2: The Ratline | Rise of the Nazis

The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched aga...

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khrus...

2: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | The Vietnam War

President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic...

22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War

Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...

3: Marshall Plan: 1947-1952 | Cold War

For both altruistic and self-serving purposes, the United States provides massive grants of aid to the countries of Europe in the form...

8: Sputnik: 1949-1961 | Cold War

As a consequence of the atomic spies, the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club, and the two superpowers compete to develop their nuclear ars...

Boycott by the United States | Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

As politics and sport collided head on, athletes faced tough dilemmas.

Red Dawn | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War. He looks at the first chilling years of the conflict, when the opposing ideologi...

1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War

Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...

10: The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward) | The Vietnam War

While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.

11: 1945: Brave New World | People's Century

Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leading to t...

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...

12: 1948: Boomtime | People's Century

Europe is exhausted and impoverished in the years after the Second World War. The United States implements the Marshall Plan to rebuild...

12: MAD: 1960-1972 | Cold War

The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...

15: 1951: Asia Rising | People's Century

Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity and conf...