Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World Wa...

Stalin, the Red Tyrant

On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is that of a demi-God. Ul...

Mission to Mir

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

The Right Stuff

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However...

Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywood movie star to a l...

Der Reichstag

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar...

K-19: The Widowmaker

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent...

Charlie Wilson's War

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen re...

Die Klasse - Berlin '61

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city...

The Real End of The Cold War

On 12 March 1999 Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bronisław Geremek, handed to the United States Secretary of S...

The Courier

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mein Name sei Altmann

Something to Do with the Wall

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin W...

The Jazz Ambassadors

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when Ame...

Little Berlin

When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a t...

Those Who Dare

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and...

The Wall

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story...

The Man Who Saved the World

The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Sov...

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churc...

Täuschung - Die Methode Reagan

A documentary about US-led covert actions under the Reagan administration intended to bolster the perception of Soviet a...