Strange Days: Cold War Britain

tv show

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3 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired November 12, 2013

Overview

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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Season 1

3 episodes

Air Date

November 12, 2013

Overview

Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the impact of the Cold War on British politics, culture and everyday society. Rather than focusing on missiles and summits, the series examines how the East-West conflict shaped the national imagination through spy scandals, James Bond films, protest records, consumerism vs communism, and widespread fears of nuclear annihilation—from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.