The Strelzyk family attempt to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles.
Both main parties supported the United Nations, but they disagreed about what that meant.
Between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, everything changed.
Stuart Maconie goes in search of Britain's atomic past, discovering the world's first nuclear power station, tucked ...
A rare insight into a village which sits within Korea's Demilitarised Zone.
Edward Behr presents a personal profile on the rise and fall from power of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu.
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. He sees how Reagan and Gorbachev helped ensure a peaceful e...
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. How Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting in Vienna in 1961 near...
To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...
Panorama looks at the Vietnam War. Includes an investigation into the attitudes of US citizens to the war and coverage of Sennator Robert Kennedy's sp...
Panorama reports on the Vietnam War.
The news and current-affairs programme looks at the implications of the end of the Cuban missile crisis. Hosted by Richard Dimbleby, stud...
Fidel Castro leads a group of journalists on a tour of Cuba. Among the scenes are reminders of the recent failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Robin ...
Cuban exiles share their reasons for fleeing their homeland. In Washington, Robin Day questions two members of the Senate Foreign Relatio...
Panorama reports from India, Africa, America and Russia to highlight the problems and challenges that the next ten years will bring. The ...
Including a report on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.
Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...
Including a report from Hungary filmed in October, narrated by Hungarian writer George Mikes. The film shows a population joyful of a seeming...
Documentary exploring the story of the Berlin Wall, uncovering a world of flawed heroes and heroic villains, compromised victories and sad...
A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...
Steve Cram recalls how the Moscow Olympics of 1980 came to symbolise the intensity of the Cold War. As politics and sport collided head on...
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a net...
Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fighti...
A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the lib...
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...
The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.
With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinka...
Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.
American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.
Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.
President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic...
Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
As the Cold War escalates, most Nazi hunting is abandoned. Suddenly, Nazis are able to return to normal life or find refuge overseas....
As the Cold War escalates, most Nazi hunting is abandoned. Suddenly, Nazis are able to return to normal life or find refuge overseas. T...
Two days highlight the benefits and terrors of atomic power: Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986.
Two days highlight the benefits and terrors of atomic power: the first controlled nuclear chain reaction on December...
Exploring the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 from the perspective of a Checkpoint Charlie Stasi guard commander.
Yuri Gagarin's journey as the first man in space.
This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.
This program focuses on the exchange of pilot Gary Powers and Soviet spy Colonel Abel in 1962.
This program covers the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage in 1953.
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.
In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader ...
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