The Arrow of Time

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938),the groundbreaking Soviet poet and diss...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from initiati...

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An accoun...

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco tha...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war a...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard re...

This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),the largest geographically unbroken political unit in the world, cov...

Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the w...

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?