02: Sceptics | Goodbye Comrades

01: Comrades: 1917-1945 | Cold War

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

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | Surviving Disaster

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...

Learning Zone | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

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

S02E09: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

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

The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

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

08: Sputnik: 1949-1961 | Cold War

As a consequence of the atomic spies, the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club, and the two superpowers compete to develop their nuclear ar...

Two Tribes | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

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

21: Spies: 1944-1994 | Cold War

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

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

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

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

The Soviets: 04: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

01: Educating Rita | Comrades

Rita Tikhonova is 21; she lives in Moscow, sharing a small flat about a mile from the Kremlin. She spent last year training to be a teacher. Th...

S02E06: Yuri Gagarin's Flight | Days That Shook the World

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

S03E04: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

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

The Soviets: 05: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

06: Doctor in Moscow | Comrades

Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fyodorov is a world-renowned eye surgeon and a member of the Soviet elite. Director of the Moscow Research Institute o...

06: Reds: 1948-1953 | Cold War

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

12: The Leningrad Sphinx | Comrades

The last of the 12 Comrades is Dinara Asanova , one of Leningrad's top film directors. For the party bosses cinema is a tool of socialist...

S03E01E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

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

01: True Believers | Goodbye Comrades

In 1984, Rita taught in a Moscow school, Tatyana was a Communist Party official in the Far East, and Lyuba was a People's Judge in Mold...