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  • TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary, History

The Sixties

The World on the Brink (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary, History

The world was on the brink of war when tensions between the United States and the USSR reached a turning point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 62'. The Bay of Pigs and the construction of the Berlin Wall is also reviewed.
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Jun 5, 2014 (United States)

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Elie Abel
Self - ABC News (archive footage) Self - ABC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Piers Anderton
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Willy Brandt
Self - German Statesman (archive footage) Self - German Statesman (archive footage)   See fewer
Leonid Brezhnev
Self - USSR Premier (archive footage) Self - USSR Premier (archive footage)   See fewer
Fidel Castro
Self - Cuban Premier (archive footage) Self - Cuban Premier (archive footage)   See fewer
John Chancellor
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Charles Collingwood
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Walter Cronkite
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Robert Dallek
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Michael Dobbs
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Douglas Edwards
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - US President (archive footage) Self - US President (archive footage)   See fewer
Bill Fox
Self - UPI (archive footage) Self - UPI (archive footage)   See fewer
Yuri Gagarin
USSR Cosmonaut (archive footage) USSR Cosmonaut (archive footage)   See fewer
Ed Herlihy
Self - Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive footage) Self - Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive footage)   See fewer
Max Holland
Self - Author / Historian Self - Author / Historian   See fewer
Richard Hottelet
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Lisa Howard
Self - ABC News (archive footage) Self - ABC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self - US Senator (archive footage) Self - US Senator (archive footage)   See fewer
Chet Huntley
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - US Vice President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) Self - US Vice President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)   See fewer
Marvin Kalb
Self - CBS News Self - CBS News   See fewer
Caroline Kennedy
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self - US First Lady (archive footage) Self - US First Lady (archive footage)   See fewer
John F. Kennedy
Self - US President (archive footage) Self - US President (archive footage)   See fewer
Nikita Khrushchev
Self - USSR Premier (archive footage) Self - USSR Premier (archive footage)   See fewer
Sergei Khrushchev
Self - Son of Nikita Self - Son of Nikita   See fewer
Robert MacNeil
Self - Author / Journalist Self - Author / Journalist   See fewer
Robert McNamara
Self - US Secy of Defense (archive footage) Self - US Secy of Defense (archive footage)   See fewer
Roger Mudd
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Tim Naftali
Self - Author (as Thomas Nafali) Self - Author (as Thomas Nafali)   See fewer
Edwin Newman
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Richard Nixon
Self - US Presidential Candidate (archive footage) Self - US Presidential Candidate (archive footage)   See fewer
Stuart Novins
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Ron Oppen
Self - WTVJ Miami News (archive footage) Self - WTVJ Miami News (archive footage)   See fewer
Francis Gary Powers
Self - Pilot (archive footage) Self - Pilot (archive footage)   See fewer
Richard Reeves
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Raul Roa
Self - Cuban Ambassador to UN (archive footage) Self - Cuban Ambassador to UN (archive footage)   See fewer
Nelson Rockefeller
Self - NY Governor (archive footage) Self - NY Governor (archive footage)   See fewer
Félix Rodríguez
Self - Bay of Pigs Veteran Self - Bay of Pigs Veteran   See fewer
Dean Rusk
Self - US Secy of State (archive footage) Self - US Secy of State (archive footage)   See fewer
Pierre Salinger
Self - US Press Secy (archive footage) Self - US Press Secy (archive footage)   See fewer
Ray Scherer
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Howard K. Smith
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Adlai Stevenson
Self - US Ambassador to UN (archive footage) Self - US Ambassador to UN (archive footage)   See fewer
Evan Thomas
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Sander Vanocur
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Lincoln White
Self - US State Dept Spokesman (archive footage) Self - US State Dept Spokesman (archive footage)   See fewer
Tom Wolfe
Self - News Correspondent (archive footage) Self - News Correspondent (archive footage)   See fewer
Valerian Zorin
Self - USSR Ambassador to UN (archive footage) Self - USSR Ambassador to UN (archive footage)   See fewer
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