Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

Operation Barbarossa was the largest military invasion in history, launched by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941.

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into soul-numbing technobabble. That sad fate is happily avoided by the absorbing Once ...

Discover why the Soviet Union ordered 3,000 British Valentine tanks during WWII—more than any other Allied tank model. This documentary[...] ...

Dr. Harry Jol, professor of geography, and a team of research students are featured in a National Geographic documentary that highlights the team’s use of ground-penetrating radar to locate mass ...

Born from Cold War paranoia, the U-2 spy plane was built in total secrecy to capture photos over the Soviet Union. Designed ...

In 1959, the Soviet Union displayed one of its lunar probes on tour—but the CIA used the opportunity to secretly disassemble, ...

"The Duel We Missed" is a film that examines how politics impacted the Olympics and lost a duel between Brian Goodell and ...

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