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  • 2018-01-09T21:00:00Zs at 2018-01-09T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 2013-11-12T21:00:00Z
  • 42m
  • 2h 6m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • BBC
BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2013-11-12T21:00:00Z

1x01 Red Dawn

Series Premiere

1x01 Red Dawn

  • 2013-11-12T21:00:00Z42m

This takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War. These are the years in which we were both more secure and prosperous - and at the same time, lived everyday with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation.

2013-11-19T21:00:00Z

1x02 The Looking Glass War

1x02 The Looking Glass War

  • 2013-11-19T21:00:00Z42m

Dominic looks at the frontline of the conflict as a newly prosperous Britain of consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

2013-11-26T21:00:00Z

1x03 Two Tribes

1x03 Two Tribes

  • 2013-11-26T21:00:00Z42m

Dominic plunders the archive and music of the late 1970s and the 1980s to bring to life an era in which the end of the world seemed a very real possibility, years in which our leaders crusaded as never before.

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