CU Reichstag in West Berlin / soldiers guarding the wall with dogs and guns / armored car drives past / soldier removing barbed wire from top of wall / soldiers stacking bricks of a new wall / machinery moves large slabs of wall into...

Trees falling from the shock wave of a nuclear explosion at the Soviet nuclear test site, the Totskoye range (Orenburg Region). 1954. Filmed on 35mm.

Two young male refugees standing with blankets wrapped round shoulders / queues of refugees / soup handed out / young woman interviewed - she had jumped through barriers as Berlin Wall was being built to get to West. Refugees from East...

Efforts by East Germans to reinforce the Berlin Wall to prevent escapes / steam shovel at work / Communists open wall for Christmas and allow West Berliners to visit relatives in the East / guards. Report on escapes over the Berlin...

sign, 'US Army Checkpoint Charlie' / border crossing area with guards on patrol / looking into the Eastern Sector of Berlin from the Friedrichstrasse. Checkpoint Charlie crossing point to East Berlin during the Cold War on June 26, 1963...

The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War. He had an affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistrees of an alleged Soviet spy Sergey Ivanov.

/ Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet chief Nikita Khrushchev at the United States Fair in Moscow / Nixon and Khrushchev debate, standing next to microphone. VP Richard Nixon at the US Fair in Moscow on July 27, 1959 in Moscow,...

Shots of destruction after a nuclear explosion, 1954. Filmed on 35mm. HD.

2K resolution footage of RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955 at the Semipalatinsk test site. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6...

Nikita Khrushchev waving to crowd outdoors in East Berlin, greeting people. Khrushchev visiting East Berlin on August 13, 1961 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

People putting up barbed wire as initial Berlin Wall is built/ Dragline dumping dirt during construction of ditch/ Guard pacing beside destroyed buildings and barbed wire of Berlin Wall/ Guards walking in ditch along barbed wire fence

Dramatic scenes of people running through barbed wire fence / man jumping out building window into net on ground / crowd of West Berliners watching escapes / East Berlin guards try to pull woman into window as West Berliners pull her to...

Demonstrations in East Berlin for and against Castro and Cuba shortly before JFK's 'Bay of Pigs' speech / people holding signs

The Nuke

Mayor of West Berlin Willy Brandt meets with President Kennedy / outside the White House side entrance, car containing Mayor Brandt pulls to a stop in front of a small crowd / pressmen with cameras crowd around the mayor / President...

Nikita Khrushchev touring East Berlin, shaking hands with military officials. Khrushchev visiting East Berlin on August 13, 1961 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)