* Strange Days - Cold War Britain (2013)

In this three-part series screening as part of BBC Two's Cold War season, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War in Britain.

Part 1: Red Dawn
For Sandbrook these are the years in which we were both more secure and prosperous that we had ever been - and at the same time, lived everyday with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation. This is not just a story of the superpower arms race or daring spies, real and fictional, it is a story in which all we played a crucial part. In the first episode, Dominic brings his trademark mix of great archive and surprising storytelling to the first chilling years of the conflict, when western democracy identified a new totalitarian enemy: Soviet communism.

Part 2: The Looking Glass War
Dominic looks at the frontline of the conflict as a newly prosperous Britain of consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

Part 3: Two Tribes
He plunders the archive and music of the late 1970s and the '80s 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 against a struggling Soviet empire and everything from sport to shopping to British pop music became potent weapons in the life and death struggle with communism.

* Kennedy's Nuclear Nightmare (2013)

The Cuban Missile Crisis may well have been the single most dangerous moment in the history of mankind. In this documentary the story is told in the words of eyewitnesses from the US, the former USSR and Cuba: the men and women who saw Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro up close as they gambled with the future of the planet. As one of them says, 'The world almost came to an end in October 1962.' Alongside intimate recollections of the crisis's more familiar moments, the film uses new and revealing interviews with key witnesses and experts, including Sergei Khrushchev, son of the former Soviet premier, and Kennedy's trusted advisor Ted Sorensen.

* Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012)

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters -- Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev and explores how the world's most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.