Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the lib...
Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.
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...
The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...
Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...
Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity an...
Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-C...
The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests,...
President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic...
Nur Mohammad Taraki comes to power in Afghanistan and attempts to modernise the country on Marxist-Leninist lines, provoking a rebe...
While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpowe...
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.
Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fighti...
Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a net...
Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee a...
American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.
Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.
With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinka...
In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.
Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.
A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...
Edward Behr presents a personal profile on the rise and fall from power of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu.
Cuban exiles share their reasons for fleeing their homeland. In Washington, Robin Day questions two members of the Senate Foreign Relatio...
Including a report on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.
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...
Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...
A rare insight into a village which sits within Korea's Demilitarised Zone.
(1/5) Charles Wheeler looks at how the Vietnam War destroyed President Johnson, and a conspiracy by the Nixon presidential ca...
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 ...
This program covers the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife b...
Documentary looking at the airlift of over one hundred orphans from Saigon in 1975, orchestrated by the editor of the Daily Mai...
Documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, which illustrates arguments contrary to those which give Sirhan Sirhan as the lo...
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.
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