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If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. 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. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev, and Reagan. 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. 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. --Susan Benson
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Rating: - Watch it online if you can't afford used VHS
This is an excellent series, done in a similar style to the WWII documentary "World at War" (both were produced by Jeremy Isaacs--Ted Turner had seen that earlier program and asked Isaacs to produce a cold war documentary). Unfortunately it's never been put on DVD, and the VHS version has long been out of print, with used copies typically fetching over a hundred dollars. So if you want to see it and don't care too much about video quality, I recommend going to video dot google dot com and doing a ... Read More
Rating: - One sentence to sum it all up
WE NEED THIS TO BE RELEASED ON DVD, THE WORLD IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT THIS GEM OF HISTORICAL FILMMAKING! PLEASE RELEASE IT ON DVD!!!!!!
Rating: - Wonderful set!....Get it now because you will never see it properly released
This is beyond a shadow of a doubt the best documentary I have ever seen on the Cold War, but it will never be released on DVD, at least not for the forseeable future, much to the chagrin of many.
This film series first aired in 1998 and was released on VHS after DVD's came into vogue, but before the explosion of movies and documentaries released on DVD in 2001-2002 -- so CNN at the time would have been in no initial rush to get it out on DVD since prior to 2001, documentaries on the ... Read More
Rating: - Best treatment of the Cold War to date ......
This is a superb series that details the entire Cold War begining just after WWII through the Gorbachev years.
I remember watching it on cable almost a decade ago, and have been waiting for it to be released on DVD, but unfortunately it is only available on (useless) VHS.
Time-Warner, please release this on DVD!!!1
Rating: - Must see!
I heard about the release when I was in Vietnam, about 1998. There's no way to order these kind of films or books in a Communist regime. I could only read the narrative of 20 episodes from CNN website. I bought the film as soon as I reached Singapore.
It's very objective to me, not a kind of propaganda. I could listen to A LOT of people from both sides of the battle line. Very vivid!
A must see documentary film!
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