Video extract about
Edward Bernays' role in the US propaganda campaign about the
Guatemalan coup from the Century of Self.
Wikipedia on the Guatemalan coup and the CIA's
website'smea culpa of the 'shameful' actions in
Guatemala and 'unfortunate legacies of the Guatemalan
"success"'.
Cold War Museum's
account of the 1997 declassified CIA documents revealing the
USA's role in 1954.
BBC on the
conspiracy theories behind the death of Dag Hammarskjold
(September 2011)
Lumumba
is a 2000 film directed by Raoul Peck centred around Patrice
Lumumba in the months before and after the Democratic
Republic of the Congo achieved independence from Belgium in
June 1960.
Why did superpower relations deteriorate in the
early 1960s?
Thirteen Days is a
2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban
Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US
political leadership. Kevin Costner stars
How accurate is 13 days? See Alex von Tunzelmann's
review.
Fog of
War is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and
times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara The film was directed by Errol Morris.
An outstanding illustratedmultimedia
essayon the
photography of the Vietnam War.
BBCExhibitmarks
the 40th anniversary of the death of photographer Henri Huet -
11 May 2011.Daily
Mailillustrated
article in 2013 on Larry Burrows and thisTime
Lifeexhibition
American experiencevideoand
website on the My Lai massacre.
Video - Cold War
episode 17
Good guys bad guys
and accompanying
website. This includes a
transcript of the episode.
This episode deals with the Cold War in Africa and the Middle
East.
Why was
Afghanistan so important to changes in the Cold War?
See the extract from the bomb episode of the
Young Ones. Play
the
1980s
arcade games and
watch the
Cold War music of the 1980s. Includes rare performance
of Cardiff's finest Along The Lines (ie me) doing the Cold War classic
'Futile Dreams'!
Part three of this
BBC documentary from 2013 examines the Cold War from a
British cultural perspective.
Why and how did Communist regimes collapse in
central and eastern Europe collapse in 1989?
Cold War 11 -
Worksheet explains why the revolutions happened and
Cold War 12
Worksheet
explains how.
News
report
video collection from
1990 that shows how events were reported in the USA at the time.
Additional notes about
Gorbachev and the opposing
blog interpretations about Reagan.
Essay by Bradley Lightbody on the role of Gorbachev in the
end of the Cold War.
People's
Century
Video -
People Power examines the events of 1989.
Website for the series.