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Home | History | Russia and the USSR

Role in the Cold War

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2000 | 23'40''

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

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

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1996 | 53'35''

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

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2000 | 23'41''

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

2: Vienna 1961 | Summits

2: Vienna 1961 | Summits

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2008 | 59'13''

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...

21: Spies: 1944-1994 | Cold War

21: Spies: 1944-1994 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'27''

Throughout the Cold War both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. For political reasons, ...

3: Geneva 1985 | Summits

3: Geneva 1985 | Summits

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2008 | 59'13''

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...

3: U2 and the Arms Race 1956-60 | History File

3: U2 and the Arms Race 1956-60 | History File

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2000 | 23'14''

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

4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2000 | 23'12''

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

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

History | BBC Two | 1999 | 24'03''

This programme looks at the Cold War.

5: Evil Empire 1980’s | History File

5: Evil Empire 1980’s | History File

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2000 | 23'35''

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

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

History | BBC Two | 1999 | 24'07''

This programme looks at the Cold War.

6: Reds: 1948-1953 | Cold War

6: Reds: 1948-1953 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'27''

The fears the leadership of both sides had were projected inwards towards their own people. In the United States the House Committee on Un-Amer...

8: Sputnik: 1949-1961 | Cold War

8: Sputnik: 1949-1961 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'26''

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

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 3'06''

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

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | Surviving Disaster

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | Surviving Disaster

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2006 | 59'35''

In April 1986 a blast at a Soviet nuclear plant emits 400 times more radiation than the bomb at Hiroshima-the UN claims it ha...

Cold War

Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'26''

Both the United States and the Soviet Union drifted apart after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War and the Paris Peace Conference. Diplomatic and...

History | GCSE Bitesize Revision

History | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2011 | 1'29'24''

This GCSE Bitesize special tells the story of Modern History using archive film and action figures, and shows the horror of medieval surgery...

Learning Zone | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Learning Zone | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2014 | 29'14''

A version made specially for schools of the BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War. Presented by Dominic Sandbrook.

Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2008 | 29'22''

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...

Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics | Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics | Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 2'58''

Steve Cram recalls how the Moscow Olympics of 1980 came to symbolise the intensity of the Cold War.

Red Dawn | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Red Dawn | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'06''

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

S2E6: Yuri Gagarin’s Flight | Days That Shook the World

S2E6: Yuri Gagarin’s Flight | Days That Shook the World

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 30'08''

Yuri Gagarin's journey as the first man in space.

S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 30'13''

This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.

S2E9: Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers | Days That Shook the World

S2E9: Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers | Days That Shook the World

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 28'54''

This program focuses on the exchange of pilot Gary Powers and Soviet spy Colonel Abel in 1962.

S3E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

S3E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2005 | 29'30''

Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.

S3E4: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

S3E4: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2002 | 59'32''

Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about the D...

S4E6: Konkordski | Secret History

S4E6: Konkordski | Secret History

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 1996 | 50'03''

Documentary revealing the truth behind the crash of the Soviet supersonic passenger jet at the Paris Air Show in 1974.

S8E5: Mutiny – The True Story Of The Red October | Secret History

S8E5: Mutiny – The True Story Of The Red October | Secret History

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2000 | 50'01''

The true story of the Russian submarine crew who planned to start a revolution in 1975.

The decision for British athletes | Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

The decision for British athletes | Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 1'59''

British athletes recall facing the decision on whether to attend the games.

The Engines That Came In From The Cold | Equinox

The Engines That Came In From The Cold | Equinox

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 50'14''

The program follows the journey of surplus state-of-the-art Russian rocket engines, saved from destruction 20 years ago in d...

The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'00''

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

Two Tribes | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Two Tribes | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'08''

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years. In the 1970s and '80s, as the end of the world seemed a real possibility, everythi...

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