Looks at nearly five decades of global history, using both new footage, interviews, and archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen by an international audience.
General Note
Special features: documentary 'The hoaxters and Castro: in his own words.
Content Note
Disc 1. Comrades 1917-1945 -- Iron curtain 1945-1947 -- Marshall plan 1947-1952 -- Berlin 1948-1949 -- Disc 2. Korea 1949-1953 -- Reds 1947-1953 -- After Stalin 1953-1956 -- Sputnik 1949-1961 -- Disc 3. The wall 1958-1963 -- Cuba 1959-1962 -- Vietnam 1954-1968 -- Mad 1960-1972 -- Disc 4. Make love not war, the 1960s -- Red spring, the 1960s -- China 1949-1972 -- Detente 1969-1975 -- Disc 5. Good guys, bad guys 1967-1978 -- Backyard 1954-1990 -- Freeze 1977-1981 -- Soldiers of God 1975-1988 -- Disc 6. Spies 1944-1994 -- Star wars 1980-1988 -- The wall comes down 1989 -- Conclusions 1989-1991.