Cold War: The Tech Race (2021): S01E04 – Race to Space

Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The Soviet Union sent the first satellite into orbit around the earth in 1957. This came as a shock to the western world. When Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly through space… Read More

Cold War: The Tech Race (2021): S01E03 – Information is Power

Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline In the race between the two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union, for supremacy during the Cold War, the development of new technologies was massively promoted. Especially in space and aviation. Rockets could… Read More

Cold War: The Tech Race (2021): S01E02 – Golden Age of Science

Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The superpowers US and Soviet Union engaged in an arms race during the Cold War and at the same time drove the technological progress of an entire society. Areas of natural science that have… Read More

Cold War: The Tech Race (2021): S01E01 – Fuel for Destruction

Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline The American attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marks the beginning of the Cold War, which is expected to last for decades and bring scientific advances with it. In secret laboratories, American and Soviet experts… Read More

Cold War: The Tech Race Documentary Series Overview (2021)

Introduction Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. Outline Cold War: The Tech Race tells the story of the war’s most influential front: the race for scientific supremacy. It was a war that brought the world to the brink of destruction. But from… Read More

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Introduction The Bedford Incident (aka Aux Postes De Combat) is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and co-produced by Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. The screenplay by James Poe… Read More