Cold War Videos

As the zeks endure a seemingly endless march, the sounds of their feet on the snow tell us how cold it really is.

It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.

In the 1970s, people were concerned that countries would use nuclear weapons against each other.

After the end of the Second World War, the United States government continued to test nuclear bombs.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.

Between October 22 and November 29, 1951, the United States government conducted nuclear-weapon tests at the Nevada Proving Ground (later called the N...

Changing his mind about the extent of U.

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.

Senator Robert Kennedy flew to California, in March of 1966, to look into the claims of striking farm workers.

At the 1964 Democratic national convention, Robert F.

At the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bob Kennedy was the countrys attorney general.

With a worried world waiting to see how Kennedy and Khrushchev would manage their way through the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy gives his br...