Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

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...

05: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee ...

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...

Vietnam War | Panorama

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...

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...

16: Détente: 1969-1975 | Cold War

Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearfu...

20: Soldiers of God: 1975-1988 | Cold War

Nur Mohammad Taraki comes to power in Afghanistan and attempts to modernise the country on Marxist-Leninist lines, provoking a rebe...

01: Lyndon Johnson's War | Wheeler on America

A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the liberal ...

12: MAD: 1960-1972 | Cold War

The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...

18: Backyard: 1954-1990 | Cold War

The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests,...

Cuban revolution | Panorama

Including a report on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.

The Robert Kennedy Assassination

Documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, which illustrates arguments contrary to those which give Sirhan Sirhan as the lo...

Cuba: Anti-Castro Rebels | Panorama

Cuban exiles share their reasons for fleeing their homeland. In Washington, Robin Day questions two members of the Senate Foreign Relatio...

Harold Wilson Interview | Panorama

Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...

Living Between Enemy Lines

A rare insight into a village which sits within Korea's Demilitarised Zone.

Meeting Fidel Castro | Panorama

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 ...

S03E08: The Road To Revolution: The Execution of Ceauşescu | Days That Shook the World

This program covers the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife...

S09E01: Ophans Of The Airlift | Secret History

Documentary looking at the airlift of over one hundred orphans from Saigon in 1975, orchestrated by the editor of the Daily Ma...

Vietnam: Journal of a War | Panorama

Panorama reports on the Vietnam War.

05: 1968 Vietnam | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a ne...