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Secrets of War: Season 5

The Cold War 1998 - 1999

  • 1999-01-24T01:00:00Z on History
  • 45m
  • 10h (10 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, War
Discover the true stories lying beneath the shadows of The Cold War and witness the secret missions and tactics used by the C.I.A. and K.G.B. throughout the years of conflict and strife. From the development of the atomic bomb to the Superpowers triumphs and crushing defeats, this season uncovers the most significant leaders and military tactics used thoughout the prolonged conflict.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

1999-01-24T01:00:00Z

5x01 Cold War: Eisenhower's Operatives

Season Premiere

5x01 Cold War: Eisenhower's Operatives

  • 1999-01-24T01:00:00Z1h

The Supreme Allied Commander of World War Two relied on the covert arm of the CIA to an unprecedented scale during his presidency. From his education on clandestine warfare from Winston Churchill to CIA missions all over the world, Eisenhower unleashed his operatives like no other US leader.

5x02 The Hunt for Atomic Secrets

  • 1998-10-25T00:00:00Z1h

The all-important race to develop an atomic bomb led to some of the most daring Russian spy operations in the United States. Exclusive interviews with Russian agents detail the inside story of the Soviet atomic spy ring.

How close did the Superpowers actually come to a nuclear holocaust? New information on brutal power struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the Cuban missile crisis and the terrifying Doomsday Machine built to end the world.

1998-11-08T01:00:00Z

5x04 Cold War: Inside the CIA

5x04 Cold War: Inside the CIA

  • 1998-11-08T01:00:00Z1h

This is an inside perspective on the CIA agency and its secret missions throughout the Cold War. From revolutionary coups and election rigging to embassy spying, the West employed the CIA in controversial ways to win the Cold War.

1998-11-15T01:00:00Z

5x05 Cold War: Inside the KGB

5x05 Cold War: Inside the KGB

  • 1998-11-15T01:00:00Z1h

These are untold stories behind the headlines in the unseen cold war battles between Western intelligence agencies and the KGB, with exclusive interviews and new revelations about the KGB's missions and tactics.

5x06 Cold War: The Kennedy Years

  • 1999-01-31T01:00:00Z1h

This youngest of American presidents took over in the most tense period of the Cold War. These are stories from within the White House, on the front lines of CIA operations in Cuba and in the espionage capital of Berlin.

Although he tried to distance himself from Stalin's ruthless regime, Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. This is a look at the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Soviet point of view, as well as brutal repressions in Poland and Hungary against Communist resistors.

1999-01-31T01:00:00Z

5x08 Cold War: Nixon's Secrets

5x08 Cold War: Nixon's Secrets

  • 1999-01-31T01:00:00Z1h

This is the story behind Richard Nixon's resounding triumphs and crushing defeats. Included are his stinging investigation of alleged Communist Alger Hiss, the covert missions carried out during his presidency in Vietnam and the secrets behind his foreign policy victories with China and the Soviet Union.

From CIA assassination attempts foiled by Cuban Intelligence agents to Castro's secret pacts with the Soviets and his survival after the Cold War, a look at one of the most enduring revolutionaries of the twentieth century.

5x10 Cold War: Brezhnev's Kremlin

  • 1999-03-14T01:00:00Z1h

Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another from Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in Arab-Israeli conflicts to the untold stories of the invasion of Afghanistan.

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