Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet spy who switched allegiances to the West during the Cold War, helped to avert nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

'1946' Superimposed over Russian officer and truck drivers / Russian USSR Soldier talking w/ Soviet officer truck convoy BG / Drivers getting into trucks convoy moving across Iranian border out of Iran.

British Russian officers dine / CU Russian soldier smiling / Russian & British officers meeting in field shaking hands talking / Group dinner w/ British & Russian officers eating together drinking beer toasting.

World war II

World war II - Recreation of scenes from World War II using authentic uniforms and accessories.

World war II - Russian army. Recreation of scenes from World War II using authentic uniforms and accessories.

/ Hungarian civilians shoot rifles at Russian Army tanks / civilians shot dead on street corner / civilians in horse drawn wagon / women in agony, crying as they evacuate the country and head to Austria / man walking with child on his...

tanks in position

tanks in position

Russian UN troops arrive in the Serbian-held town of Pale / warm welcome from locals for Russian UN troops, arriving in UN trucks and armored personnel carriers, waving from vehicles, clapping / People standing in snow smiling at them,...

R-1D Rocket Launch at Kapustin Yar V-2

Title card: "Austria-Hungary Frontier, The Last Yards to Freedom..." / The border area between Hungary and Austria and the flimsy border gate with a flag on it / Several dramatic views of Hungarians running from Russian soldiers and...

Title Card: "Bulletin - Joseph Stalin Is Dead" // Moscow: LS Kremlin Wall in snow / MS building / VS people walking in street, reading newspapers, woman with baby / CU Joseph Stalin in military uniform, smiling slightly / MS Vyacheslav...

(Washington, DC 1/20/1945) LS White House with a few MPs guarding on snowy lawn / MS side view Pres. Franklin Roosevelt swears in on White House portico / rear WS large crowd / VS Roosevelt waves, son Elliot behind him smiling / MS...

Russian dictator Joseph Stalin smokes a pipe.

Title card: "Moscow - Russia parades might - in the rain" / Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov standing in automobile driving past soldiers standing in formation as he reviews them / close shot of people in crowd applauding /...

[GHOC Episode 0-07] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title: "Stalin Dies" with photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin / [1930s, Moscow] VS Stalin / VS Soviet Army marches in Red Square; Stalin and officials on the Lenin...

Title card: "Now - the story that affects the welfare and freedom of all the earth's people . . . The Story of the East-West split!" / title card: "What was behind this clash of ideals and the widening breach in the political structure...

Title "Russia's Military Power" superimposed over soldiers marching in formation; VO music throughout / high overhead shot of soldiers marching in formation / QS Joseph Stalin with officials and officers on the tribune of Lenin's...

MS Soviet airmen deplane from plane on airfield, other airmen in foreground / MS US and Soviet airmen talking in group as Soviets deplane; on the plane is a US star insignia painted over to resemble Soviet red star / MS parked plane...

MH17 Mourners Gather outside Schiphol Airport

Two lines of Soviet tanks on parade merge into one as they move away from camera in Red Square / CU tanks approach, pass; replica of a Soviet ship stands in bg / parade proceeds through city / people marching with banners / sailors march...

Soviet May Day military parade in Red Square / rear shot tanks on parade, w/ St Basil's Cathedral and State Historical Museum in bg / soldiers marching thru Red Square / MS low angle Joseph Stalin, General Secretary, Communist Party of...

US Gen. Mark Clark, Commanding General of Allied Fifth Army, coming out of hut followed by Soviet Gen. Ivan Susloparov and other Soviet and US officers / US color guard standing in formation / cameramen standing on muddy road in front of...