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.

Living Between Enemy Lines

Living Between Enemy Lines

Cold War conflicts | BBC News | 2024 | 26'02''

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

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1991 | 59'43''

Edward Behr presents a personal profile on the rise and fall from power of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu.

Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Cold War conflicts | BBC Alba | 2018 | 46'17''

To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...

Vietnam War | Panorama

Vietnam War | Panorama

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1967 | 49'58''

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...

Harold Wilson Interview | Panorama

Harold Wilson Interview | Panorama

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC One | 1967 | 42'19''

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

Vietnam: Journal of a War | Panorama

Vietnam: Journal of a War | Panorama

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1966 | 51'06''

Panorama reports on the Vietnam War.

Meeting Fidel Castro | Panorama

Meeting Fidel Castro | Panorama

Cold War conflicts | BBC | 1961 | 16'39''

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 ...

Cuba: Anti-Castro Rebels | Panorama

Cuba: Anti-Castro Rebels | Panorama

Cold War conflicts | BBC | 1961 | 22'47''

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

Cuban revolution | Panorama

Cuban revolution | Panorama

Cold War conflicts | BBC | 1959 | 20'30''

Including a report on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'44'23''

A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...

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

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

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'47''

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

04: 1951 Korea | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

04: 1951 Korea | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'38''

Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fight...

01: Lyndon Johnson’s War | Wheeler on America

01: Lyndon Johnson’s War | Wheeler on America

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 1996 | 53'40''

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

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 1978 | 20'03''

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

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.

10: The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward) | The Vietnam War

10: The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 55'51''

While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.

09: Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973) | The Vietnam War

09: Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 54'36''

Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.

08: A Sea of Fire (April 1969-May 1970) | The Vietnam War

08: A Sea of Fire (April 1969-May 1970) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 54'15''

With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthink...

07: Chasing Ghosts (June 1968-May 1969) | The Vietnam War

07: Chasing Ghosts (June 1968-May 1969) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 53'49''

Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.

06: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968) | The Vietnam War

06: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 50'54''

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.

05: This is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) | The Vietnam War

05: This is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 53'07''

American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.

04: Doubt (January 1966-June 1967) | The Vietnam War

04: Doubt (January 1966-June 1967) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 57'43''

Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.

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

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

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 55'56''

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

02: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | The Vietnam War

02: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | The Vietnam War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 51'19''

President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocrati...

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

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

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2017 | 55'05''

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

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

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

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 2005 | 29'09''

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

08: Age of Extremes | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

08: Age of Extremes | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

Cold War conflicts | BBC One | 2012 | 59'09''

In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.

S09E01: Ophans Of The Airlift | Secret History

S09E01: Ophans Of The Airlift | Secret History

Cold War conflicts | Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'06''

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

The Robert Kennedy Assassination

The Robert Kennedy Assassination

Cold War conflicts | Channel 4 | 1992 | 51'42''

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

23: 1975: War of the Flea | People’s Century

23: 1975: War of the Flea | People’s Century

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1997 | 53'37''

While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpowe...

15: 1951: Asia Rising | People’s Century

15: 1951: Asia Rising | People’s Century

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1996 | 53'34''

Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity an...

16: Détente: 1969-1975 | Cold War

16: Détente: 1969-1975 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'25''

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

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

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'24''

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

18: Backyard: 1954-1990 | Cold War

18: Backyard: 1954-1990 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'27''

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

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'25''

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

12: MAD: 1960-1972 | Cold War

12: MAD: 1960-1972 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'27''

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

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'48''

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...

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'25''

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

05: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

05: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'26''

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

Lyndon Johnson’s War | Wheeler on America

Lyndon Johnson’s War | Wheeler on America

Cold War conflicts | BBC Two | 1996 | 53'16''

(1/5) Charles Wheeler looks at how the Vietnam War destroyed President Johnson, and a conspiracy by the Nixon presidential ca...
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