08: The Fatal Competition | The Age of Uncertainty

08: The Fatal Competition | The Age of Uncertainty

Conflicts between objectives | BBC Two | 1977 | 54'02''

JK Galbraith visits the ruins of postwar Berlin, the corridors of power in the Pentagon and 'the world's largest used plan...

Post-war Berlin | Twentieth Century History

Post-war Berlin | Twentieth Century History

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1978 | 8'56''

An explanation of how the allies aided Berlin in its post-war recovery.

Korean War | Twentieth Century History

Korean War | Twentieth Century History

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1978 | 9'53''

An explanation of how the Korean war unfolded.

The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall

The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2009 | 1'29'33''

Documentary exploring the story of the Berlin Wall, uncovering a world of flawed heroes and heroic villains, compromised victories and sad...

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1978 | 19'48''

The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.

S04E03: The Reckoning | Rise of the Nazis

S04E03: The Reckoning | Rise of the Nazis

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2023 | 57'39''

As the Cold War escalates, most Nazi hunting is abandoned. Suddenly, Nazis are able to return to normal life or find refuge oversea...

S04E02: The Ratline | Rise of the Nazis

S04E02: The Ratline | Rise of the Nazis

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2023 | 59'00''

As the Cold War escalates, most Nazi hunting is abandoned. Suddenly, Nazis are able to return to normal life or find refuge overseas....

S01E05: The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Days That Shook the World

S01E05: The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Days That Shook the World

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'41''

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

23: The Wall Comes Down: 1989 | Cold War

23: The Wall Comes Down: 1989 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'29''

Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negoti...

07: After Stalin: 1953-1956 | Cold War

07: After Stalin: 1953-1956 | Cold War

Germany 20th Century | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'27''

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet leader after the death of Stalin. Khrushchev rolls back a number of oppressive measures that existed ...

04: Berlin: 1948-1949 | Cold War

04: Berlin: 1948-1949 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'24''

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 i...

The Lives of OthersDas Leben der Anderen (2006)

The Lives of OthersDas Leben der Anderen (2006)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2010 | 2'08'36''

Oscar-winning drama set in 1980s East Germany about a Stasi agent, employed to spy on a dramatist and his lover, who becomes ...

Fall of the Berlin Wall | Newsnight

Fall of the Berlin Wall | Newsnight

Germany 20th Century | BBC One | 1989 | 22'40''

As the Berlin Wall starts to be taken apart as rapidly as it arose, Peter Snow and Olenka Frenkiel report from the city on how people on ...
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