The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

The reunification of East and West Germany has, in many ways, been a difficult transition for both peoples. Here young people from both countries talk about their lives before, during and after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Looks at post-war prosperity and the rise of consumerism; G.I. Bill; rise of the middle class and the suburbs; the Baby Boom, Truman and the Fair Deal; civil rights; television; roles of women and the beginning of the feminist movement; Cold War; Korean War; NATO; arms race; communism, Red Scare, and McCarthyism; rock & roll era

Uses archival footage and sound recordings to explore Russian life under Stalin. Discusses his rise to leadership, collectivization of agriculture and industry, 5 Year Plans, Totalitarianism, The Great Terror, Stalin's personality cult, and foreign policy in the 1930s

Young people involved in the Soviet republic's struggle for independence give exciting, eyewitness accounts of the fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of new, independent nations

Focuses on the transformation of former Communist countries into market economies and assesses the macro- and micro-economics policies needed to ensure their successful reintegration into the global economy

Studies the series of military defeats and growing social unrest that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917

Program chronicles the circumstances leading to one of the most important events of the 20th century, the destruction of the Berlin Wall

Uses archival footage and interviews to explore the history and development of the Cold War. Divided into short segments that include the rising tensions, war, and resolution in Korea and Vietnam

Uses archival footage and interviews to explore the events surrounding the Cold War. Divided into short segments that include the Hungarian Uprising, Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, Berlin as a divided city and the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Uses archival footage and interviews to explore the end of Cold War. Divided into short segments that include Prague, the arms race, Nixon and relations with China, 1973 war between Egypt and Israel, interviews with dissidents from the Cold War era, Reagan and "Star Wars", Glasnost and Perestolka, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War