Strange Days: Cold War Britain

2013
1 Seasons
3 Episodes
9 (1)
Ended

BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

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Seasons

3. Two Tribes

November 26, 2013

Dominic Sandbrook explores the late 1970s and 1980s, an era when the end of the world seemed a very real possibility and leaders crusaded against the threat of nuclear war.

2. The Looking Glass War

November 19, 2013

Dominic Sandbrook examines the ideological frontline as newly prosperous, consumerist Britain was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

1. Red Dawn

November 12, 2013

Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War, a time when Britain was more secure and prosperous than ever, yet lived with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation.