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Episode list

1945-1953: From World War to Cold War
The Dawn of the Cold War
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E2
  • The Dawn of the Cold War
For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.
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Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E1
  • Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three
Hear how the Yalta Conference of 1945 - in which Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization - led to enmity.
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Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three

S1.E1 ∙ Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Hear how the Yalta Conference of 1945 - in which Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization - led to enmity.
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The Dawn of the Cold War

S1.E2 ∙ The Dawn of the Cold War

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.
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The Men Who Built America
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The Men Who Built America
Modern Marvels
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Modern Marvels
The Planets
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The Planets
American Experience
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
American Experience
Grant
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Grant

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Last Days in Vietnam

Last Days in Vietnam

During the final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. An unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.

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The Soviet Story

The Soviet Story

The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

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Shoah

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

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They Shall Not Grow Old

They Shall Not Grow Old

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

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Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944

Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944

On June 10, 1944, a German SS division arrived in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred 643 innocent civilians.

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