Summary: In the midst of the trauma of the Vietnam War, a U.S. diplomatic strategy evolves that begins the unraveling of the Soviet Empire. This program on the Cold War of the 1970s and 80s, hosted by David Frost and featuring historian Michael Beschloss, focuses on such key events and tactics as detente, the manipulations that sparked Middle East tensions between Soviet-supported Egypt and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The end of World War II brought a desolate European landscape with two countries and two ideologies in an epic face-off. Sir David Frost and noted historian Michael Beschloss examine a multitude of essential topics and events of the period, including the roots of the Cold War, the early challenge to Truman, the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War and the spread of "red scare" paranoia, the arms race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact to the launch of Operation Barbarossa, this program explores in detail the efforts of Hitler and Stalin to outwit each other during the so-called period of cooperation lasting from August 1939 to June 1941-and how their mutual distrust wrong-footed them both, with disastrous results for their countries. Numerous quotations from the dictators are included,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Toward the end of World War II, as the era of European empires was coming to a close, a new world order was in the making-and Roosevelt and Stalin were at the center of its creation. This program tracks the political hopes and fears of the Allies during the period that ended with the death of FDR and the collapse of the Third Reich. The words of Roosevelt, Stalin, W. Averell Harriman, Daisy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The rosy picture of Anglo-American amity during the run-up to America's entry into World War II is more myth than fact. Starting in May 1940 with the fall of continental Western Europe and the isolation of Britain, this program explores the tenuous relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt as the U.S. haltingly progressed first to arsenal of democracy and then to full-fledged combatant....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Behind the smokescreen of the massive Anglo-American/Soviet pincer movement that would inevitably crush the German war effort, Churchill and Stalin were locked in a grim struggle of wills to set the terms that would decide the immediate future of postwar Europe-a contest in which victory was tipped to the U.S.S.R. through the secret intervention of President Roosevelt. This program reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008