Secrets & Spies

Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald Reagan biography dives deep into the pivotal...

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be...

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers...

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear...

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run...

Declassified documents from the Cold War shine light into the hidden communications between the US and the Soviet Union during the heavy tensions....