/ Crowds fill the streets in Cuba / Fidel Castro speaks passionately to the crowd. Fidel Castro and the Invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 in Cuba (Footage by Getty Images)

General views of the Brandenburg Gate as armed East German workers militia are lined up underneath / East German observers on top of gate with binoculars / crowds watch from the Western side. The Berlin Wall is built on August 15, 1961...

East German Border: the wall along border is now a double line of high concrete posts and barbed wire with a ditch behind: line of East German workers led by flag bearer: guards shine large mirror at camera: smoke bomb set off to obscure...

MS Shot of Berlin Wall / Berlin, Germany

view of East Berlin Wall with fence around it / former Vice President Richard Nixon arriving in car at Checkpoint Charlie / signs for Checkpoint Charlie / Richard Nixon with his family, his wife Pat and daughters Tricia and Julie / Nixon...

/ West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrives by helicopter at Stonewall Texas with Vice President Lyndon Johnson / a gathered crowd waves flags and cheers / people seated at outdoor barbeque / the chancellor receives a ten gallon hat...

/ aerial of bridge across the Rhine River / river cutting through downtown Berlin / observation tower. Berlin Wall: Rhine River and Berlin Countryside on August 31, 1962 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

/ aerial views of the Rhine River / checkpoint along the river / looking down at buildings and trees along the riverbanks. Berlin Wall: Rhine River and checkpoint on August 31, 1962 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

/ aerial of Reichstag building / looking down at the roads around the Reichstag / along the river / aerial views of apartment housing complexes and rooftops. Berlin Wall: views over downtown Berlin on August 31, 1962 in Berlin, Germany...

/ soldier stands in doorway with sign above that reads 'US ARMY CHECKPOINT CHARLIE' / wider shot of Checkpoint Charlie showing American flag, a wall of sandbags and more soldiers / Volkswagen Beetle drives up to checkpoint and is...

/ tall wide building with bricked up windows / CU of the Berlin Wall going through the city / people living life, traffic on West Berlin side and nothing on the other / CU of wall and the barrier in front of it. Berlin Wall: East vs West...

/ aerial view of the Reichstag building / panning around the perimeter of the Reichstag / road leading to Reichstag. Berlin Wall: Reichstag building on August 31, 1962 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

Retro dials and gauges coming to life in a boffin's den

HD colour footage of shock waves from nuclear bomb testing. Montage. Filmed on 35mm. 1950s

HD footage of a Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 heavy-bomber plane (NATO reporting name: Badger) at the Semipalatinsk test site, with the RDS-37 hydrogen bomb. Soviet Kazakhstan, 1955. Filmed on 35mm.

HA parked cars and people on city street / man using camera with long lens outdoors, taking photograph standing next to Bernauer Strabe street sign / guard in uniform shining flashlight at camera thru barbed wire of Berlin Wall /...

Fidel Castro and Premiere Nikita Khrushchev flaunt friendship as President Eisenhower talks to Pan American leaders / Khrushchev smiles and waves with Fidel Castro / President Eisenhower meeting with Pan American leaders. Fidel Castro...