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...
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...
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.
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.
This programme looks at the Cold War.
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet lea...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khrus...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...
Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about the D...
The program follows the journey of surplus state-of-the-art Russian rocket engines, saved from destruction 20 years ago in d...
The true story of the Russian submarine crew who planned to start a revolution in 1975.
Documentary revealing the truth behind the crash of the Soviet supersonic passenger jet at the Paris Air Show in 1974.
Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leadin...
Throughout the Cold War both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. For political reasons, ...
As a consequence of the atomic spies, the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club, and the two superpowers compete to develop their nuclear ars...
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...
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...
A version made specially for schools of the BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War. Presented by Dominic Sandbrook.
Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years. In the 1970s and '80s, as the end of the world seemed a real possibility, everythi...
Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched aga...
Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War. He looks at the first chilling years of the conflict, when the opposing ideologi...
This GCSE Bitesize special tells the story of Modern History using archive film and action figures, and shows the horror of medieval surgery...
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...
British athletes recall facing the decision on whether to attend the games.
As politics and sport collided head on, athletes faced tough dilemmas.
Steve Cram recalls how the Moscow Olympics of 1980 came to symbolise the intensity of the Cold War.
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