The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

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

4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

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

1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War

Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

2: Iron Curtain: 1945-1947 | Cold War

The wartime allies demobilise - the United States enjoys its economic strength and resurgence while Britain and the rest of Europe is e...

9: The Wall: 1958-1963 | Cold War

West Germany, and West Berlin, become more affluent, prompting a surge of East Germans to cross the borders in Berlin, kept open under the ...

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 Conference. Diplomatic and...

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...

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...

3: Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965) | The Vietnam War

With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.

4: Berlin: 1948-1949 | Cold War

By 1947, the United States placed as a high priority the revival of the German economy, an approach opposed by the Soviet Union. After the in...

22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War

Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...

S1E5: The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Days That Shook the World

Exploring the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 from the perspective of a Checkpoint Charlie Stasi guard commander.

S2E9: 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...

Threads

Grim drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families, tracing the events leading up to the War and the decade of devastation ...

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...

16: Détente: 1969-1975

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

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

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

2: Vienna 1961 | Summits

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...

3: Marshall Plan: 1947-1952 | Cold War

For both altruistic and self-serving purposes, the United States provides massive grants of aid to the countries of Europe in the form...