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Every morning for nearly half a century, people around the world woke up and wondered if this would be the day the world would end. This was life for the millions embroiled in the Cold War, the ideological struggle between East and West for world domination.
CNN Presents the most global, comprehensive critical exploration of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that divided the planet. COLD WAR is an epic story told on a human scale through the observations of more than 500 eyewitnesses, from the statesman who determined wold policy to ordinary men and women whose lives it safeguarded ... or threatened
Every morning for nearly half a century, people around the world woke up and wondered if this would be the day the world would end. This was life for the millions embroiled in the Cold War, the ideological struggle between East and West for world domination.
CNN Presents the most global, comprehensive critical exploration of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that divided the planet. COLD WAR is an epic story told on a human scale through the observations of more than 500 eyewitnesses, from the statesman who determined wold policy to ordinary men and women whose lives it safeguarded ... or threatened. Twenty-four one-hour episodes trace the series of events, great and small, that combined to shape the modern age.
A landmark historical record, COLD WAR challenges the simplistic notion of two superpowers parrying on the edge of a nuclear precipice. More than one million feet of film shot or recovered, much of it never seen in the West, reveals the arrogance, caprice and tactical genius of world leaders Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev and their most trusted aides; the significance of a cosmonaut and a U-2 pilot, whose names were briefly household words; Potsdam, Checkpoint Charlie, Dr. Strangelove, MAD, SALT, DMZ and the ABCs of international engagement; and the testimony of an aging generation, finally - and probably for the only time - on the record.
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Release date: 31 December 1969
Number of discs: 16
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