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''Cold War'' is a twenty-four episode
television documentary Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. *Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...
series about the Cold War that first aired in 1998."Episode 1: Comrades, 1917-1945".
'' CNN: Cold War''. Archived fro
the original
on December 10, 2008. It features interviews and footage of the events that shaped the tense relationships between the
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and the
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. The series was produced by Pat Mitchell and
Jeremy Isaacs Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, opera manager, and a recipient of many British Academy Television Awards and International Emmy Awards. He won the British Film Institute Fellow ...
, who had earlier in 1973 produced the World War II documentary series ''
The World at War ''The World at War'' is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War. It was produced in 1973, at a cost of £900,000 (), the most expensive factual series ever produced. It was produ ...
'' in a similar style.
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funded the series as a joint production between the
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and the
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. It was first broadcast on
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in the
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between September 27, 1998 and April 4, 1999, and BBC Two in the
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. Writers included Hella Pick,
Jeremy Isaacs Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, opera manager, and a recipient of many British Academy Television Awards and International Emmy Awards. He won the British Film Institute Fellow ...
,
Lawrence Freedman Sir Lawrence David Freedman, (born 7 December 1948) is a British academic, historian and author with specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and wa ...
,
Neal Ascherson Charles Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer. He has been described by Radio Prague as "one of Britain's leading experts on central and eastern Europe". Ascherson is the author of several books on the history ...
,
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and
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.
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was the narrator, and
Carl Davis Carl Davis, (born October 28, 1936) is an American-born conductor and composer who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1961. He has written music for more than 100 television programmes, but is best known for creating music to accompany si ...
(who also collaborated with Isaacs with ''The World at War'') composed the theme music. Each episode would feature historical footage and interviews from both significant figures and others who had witnessed particular events. After the series was broadcast it was released as a set of twelve (NTSC) or eight (PAL) VHS cassettes. The series was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on May 8, 2012 in North America. The archival footage has been cropped for widescreen presentation instead of being left in the original format "DVD Review: Cold War - The Complete Series".
''moviefreak.com'', May 15, 2012. Archived fro
the original
 The series excluded several Cold War issues and topics, including the Communist takeovers of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in 1975, the subsequent unification of Vietnam and Vietnamese refugee crisis, the mass killings of Communists in Indonesia in 1965, China after
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
's passing, from the trial of the Gang of Four to the
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, Bulgaria, Albania, and more details on the Dominican crisis of 1965.


Episodes

Each episode lasts approximately 46 minutes.


VHS vs DVD editions

The VHS version is formatted with 4:3 aspect ratio, common for CRT television sets. The interviews are cropped on the sides to fit television screen. The DVD version is formatted with 16:9 aspect ratio, suitable for widescreen television sets. The archival film is cropped on top and bottom to achieve wider aspect ratio. File:Cnn_cold_war_reel_comparison.jpg, Archival film example, VHS (left) vs. DVD (right) File:CNN_Cold_War_interview_comparison.jpg, Interview example, VHS (left) vs. DVD (right)


Further reading

* Lowinsky, Benjamin D
"The CNN Series on the Cold War: History as Narrative and Entertainment"
(Review). ''Left History'', Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 101–107. . * Beichman, Arnold, ed. ''CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy''.
Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, an ...
, 2000.


References


External links


CNN official website for the series
(2014 version)
CNN official website for the series
(original 1998 version, archived by the
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)
''The Cold War over CNN's ''Cold War
Richard Pipes,
Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British historian and poet. A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books ...
and John Lewis Gaddis debate the accuracy of the series in this Hoover Institute publication. *
All episodes
at the
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Extended interviews
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