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The Truth About Getting Fit

The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great

Praying for Armageddon

What Is a Woman

The Normans: Conquest

Why Do I Need You
World Biggest Bomb

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

The Last Lions

The Darkest Web

Deadly Comets and Meteors

The Secret
The Magic Pill

Helvetica

Alien Planets

Neanderthal 1

Caravaggio

Unlocking the Code

The Cold War: 1945-1950

2012 History

Directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. In this episode we will see how the equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it. Highlights include Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the civil war in Greece and the Red Scare that prompts the rise of Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the FBI.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

The 50s Eisenhower the Bomb and the Third World

2012 History

Eisenhower and the CIA played a great part in the shaping of the world in the 1950's; the development of the Cold war and the nerve-wrecking battle against communism, driven on by the U.S.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

JFK: To the Brink

2012 History

JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace with Khrushchev; JFK assassinated.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

Johnson Nixon and Vietnam: Reversal Of Fortune

2012 History

Stone opens the episode on Vietnam with a review of American intervention in Latin America. Lyndon Johnson, according to Stone, disregarded JFK’s “memo” about withdrawing troops and instead escalated. The Cataclysm in Vietnam as the war reaches a turning point - there's no going back. The betrayal by Richard Nixon.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

Reagan Gorbachev and Third World: Rise Of The Right

2012 History

Carter's dreams of change give way to Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev redeems Reagan and fresh opportunities for peace arise. The debate over Reagan's legacy.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

Bush and Clinton: Squandered Peace in New World Order

2012 History

George W. Bush's doctrine of endless war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the continued cannibalization of the U.S. economy. Squandered chances given by the end of the Cold War. A new USA, the National Security Fortress.

Series: The Untold History of the United States