Category: War Documentaries

Detente The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon[…]

China Chinese Communists are victorious in the longest civil war in 20th century history. Mao Zedong’s reforms are popular, but[…]

Red Spring In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, denial of freedom and incentive stifles ambition and achievement. The young[…]

Make Love Not War Western Economies grow and prosper, fueled partly by armaments production. Rejecting their parents’ affluence and the[…]

Vietnam Since the end of the French colonial rule, Vietnam has been divided. The north is run by Communists, the[…]

Cuba Contemplating U.S. missile power installed around the Soviet periphery, Krushchev decides to install short and medium range missilesin Cuba,[…]

The Wall Stalin’s death has brought about détente, but the fate of Germany is unresolved. West Germany is admitted to[…]

Sputnik In the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union seems to be forging ahead. In October 1957, the Soviet satellite Sputnik orbits[…]

After Stalin Thaw is conceivable with Stalin dead and Eisenhower in the White House. Stalin’s chief of secret police is[…]