Shorn of its empire and communist domination, Russia faces its future with its economy in chaos. proves the stronger the Soviet Union implodes.
It is a story that must be told and shared throughout the world for over forty years life itself on the planet literally hung in the balance of this high-stakes chessgame between two colossal superpowers.Īs each of these 24 episodes is seeded I plan to add on the MVGroup forum release post a more comprehensive synopsis of each episode - describing in greater detail the topics covered, brief biographical information of interview participants and their roles, and highlights of the archival footage included.ĮPISODE TWENTY-FOUR: Conclusions (1989-1991)
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Nonetheless this series is unprecedented for its comprehensiveness, its vast array of interviews with many direct participants who are now unfortunately, no longer with us, and its huge collection of archival footage from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Note that the highest resolution available for this now out-of-print series is VHS - To the great disappointment of documentarians, Cold War scholars, students and instructors, and history lovers the world over, Time Warner has completely ceased publication of this series, has taken down its equally vast and comprehensive Cold War website and will likely never release this documentary on DVD. Informed by the stories of 500 eyewitnesses-from citizens and soldiers to historians and statesmen-and strengthened by painstaking reconstruction of archival historical film footage, CNN's Cold War is a heroic undertaking and a sweeping chronicle of the world's most fragile decades. This 8-volume, 24-episode series, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, is a comprehensive history that examines the key events of the arc of the Soviet Union, from its birth to its fall, and provides a thorough analysis of what was going on behind closed doors. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev, and Reagan. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible-tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the Cold War with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. History Documentary hosted by Kenneth Branagh and published byīroadcasted as part of CNN Perspectives series in 1998
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