I've watched this whole series 4 times, and I have to say there's no better cold war doco, or war doco for that matter that I've seen before. They interview some very influential people.

@DVMovies1999

7 жыл бұрын

Omg I was so shocked when I saw that they even interviewed fidel castro!!

@kevintaylor620

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. The World at War is a great series, but for me, the only one I've seen that rivals Cold War is Death In Yugoslavia.

@ricardocorchado4641

7 жыл бұрын

this show let's you see there was no good guy in the cold war the US and USSR both supported dictatorships just because of their governments

@67nairb

7 жыл бұрын

The man who created this documentary series, Jeremy Isaacs, also created the WORLD AT WAR in the 1970s.

@amanyamani1685

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Lester i agree the new documentaries now are just propaganda siding to american version of it

Castro is a captivating speaker, i will give him that. I can totally see why someone could love him.

@gideonhorwitz9434

Ай бұрын

He held a crowds attention for 3 hours in the hot humid Caribbean weather thats a dangerous level of charisma

What a brilliant series this is. Kenneth Branagh is a great narrator too,

@ricardojordanjordan2216

Ай бұрын

Agree 100%

I just love Fidel Castro's disappointed reaction over the Russia-US back-channel agreement. His feeling of being betrayed just shows.

I once had business with a former US Army helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam. He was recruited by the CIA to fly for UNITA in Angola. He was paid $45,000.00 per month as a mercenary.

The South Africans just assumed they would beat any black forces and sent too few troops with no heavy weapons. Racism is a poor strategy.

I remember a joke from those years, "VISIT ISRAEL, SEE THE PYRAMIDS". Regards

@withnail-and-i

6 жыл бұрын

That shit is funny

@InquisitiveUniverse

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's not mentioned in this documentary but just so you know, Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by fundamentalists. eleven other officials were also killed in the assassination.

@cpt191021

2 жыл бұрын

so mossad

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

2 жыл бұрын

@@cpt191021 The complete opposite, actually. Islamic fundamentalists who condemned his Sinai treaty with Israel.

@realblakehall

Жыл бұрын

Ayman al-Zawahiri ("leader" of al-Qaeda since 2011, and UBL's right hand man during the its early years) was one of the main Egyptian conspirators who killed Sadat. He was imprisoned, but was able to get out by arguing his case that Sadat defied Islam by brokering a deal with Israel. (I think the Egyptian govt was afraid of him and his group, and that's the real reason they let him out of prison) The rest, as they say, is history. (there is a video of a prison interview of a much younger al-Zawahiri pleading his case from behind bars - google to find them)

Terrific series this. Each part comprehensive, informative and factual. Some great interviews too. Proper documentary series. Excellent.

The FNLA anthem is a banger

As soon as they talked about recruiting mercenaries I was reminded of that Christopher Walken movie The Dogs of War

Great to see the evil deeds caught up with Costas Georgiou aka 'Callan', an evil man if there ever was one.

'Fresh breeding grounds for the superpowers'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:20 Third World bandwagon 3:55 🇮🇱-🇪🇬-🇯🇴-🇸🇾 Six Day War 1967 7:24 Nasser's ⚰️ and Sadat's 👑 8:21 Nixon-Brezhnev Moscow Summit of 1972 9:42 🇮🇱-🇪🇬Yom Kippur War 1973 20:16 38:24 Angola Civil War - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇺 MPLA, 🇺🇸FNLA, 🇺🇸 UNITA 25:18 30:32 South African🇿🇦 asymmetric war in Angola 26:39 Cuban intervention in Angola *(Operation Carlota)* 37:39 US Congress cuts funds for CIA 38:48 Ethiopia's 🇪🇹-🇷🇺 Mengistu Haile Mariam; 🇸🇴 vs. 🇪🇹-🇨🇺 Ogaden War 1977; 44:47 Reflections: Dobrynin, Brzezinski

Mengestu took over Ethiopia in 74 (the doc makes one believe it was 76). It then goes on to focus on a scuffle with Somalia. Much more significant is the war of independence for Eritrea which lasted from 63 to 93. Until 74, USSR was supporting Eritreans while USA supported Ethiopia. Ethiopia's sudden support for the Marxist Derg (ruling committee of Ethiopia) was a perceived as a betrayal by the Eritreans who had nearly taken back all their pre- WW 2 land. Suddenly they were being bombed by MiG 21s flown by Russians. In 93 the Eritreans allied with anti-Marxist Ethiopians overthrew Mengestu and Eritrea became an independent country again.

It seems that the countries of the entire world, were nothing more than pawns in a great game of chess. It's all so depressing.

@malafunkshun8086

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a game that, sadly, has been played by the “Great Powers” for centuries. Aloha 🙏🏼🤙🏼

Remember the U.S.S. Liberty.

Whoever thinks Angola stop being a colony is truly on for a surprise

@InquisitiveUniverse

2 жыл бұрын

All African countries are still colonies, one way or another.

I have heard people mispronounce Suez Canal variously as Swiss Canal and Sewage Canal.🤣

@MrBobthebird

4 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha I Like the sewage canal one.

2nd time watching amazing series!

That Castro was a bell/end

And they say men don’t start drama 🤣

Lots of John Stockwell videos exist from 80’s community access cable tv in Austin Tx

i need the name of the FNLA theme song asap please!

i don't understand why this (otherwise quite great) docu doesn't talk about GB and France f.e. the Suez canal.

@malafunkshun8086

2 жыл бұрын

The Suez Canal episode was briefly discussed in one of the earlier episodes, but I agree, there should’ve been more coverage. 🤙🏼

This episode should've ended on a positive note with with the signing of the Camp David Accord in 1979 between Israel, Egypt and the United States on the White House lawn, a triumph in U.S. foreign policy. But of course it ended in tragically with the assassination Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Cuba vs south africa ) ethiopia didn't read this in school

Cuban troops, Soviet arms with Ethiopia vs Somalia and zero US backing Yeah... no doubt what the outcone would be.

So good

I am honestly suprised Kissenger has such a balanced take on Israel-Egypt 17:20

Angolan Forces sure do a lot of singing.... It's South West Side Story! Their _The Jets_ of South Africa.

This is such a good series. What a fall from grace cnn

What’s the official name of this series and who produced it when was it aired and where ?

@BinALA

8 ай бұрын

Its a CNN series from the mid 90s. Should just be called CNN - Cold War or something.

@ZoZooZoooZoxxxx

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing @@BinALA

Interesting factoid: Col. Jan Breytenbach is the older brother of Breyten Breytenbach, the noted poet and writer and staunch anti-Apartheid activist, who was imprisoned for seven years for marrying a Vietnamese-French woman in violation of race-mixing laws at the time, and for which he was acknowledged by the satirical British tv show Spitting Image as the only 'nice' white South African: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nm2Yz9GNaaTMn6w.html

Where is ep 18?

@wplants9793

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t see it in the playlist either 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now I’m intrigued Edit: I like it up and it’s on KZread, but not in this playlist. It’s called “Cold War Backyard 1954 -1990”

@harishashok6022

Жыл бұрын

Episode 18 is about South American countries being influenced by the USSR.

1:50 Dancing & jogging combined into one.

Why do they not talk about Lumumba assassination? Because he was communist? This documentary is very complete but a little bit biased

@malafunkshun8086

2 жыл бұрын

Patrice Lumumba would’ve been great for this episode 🤙🏼

Constand Viljoen speaks in Dutch

11:58 dam this prove that they are really eager for revenge

whoses here for school in 2021

Israel Can Sure Kick Ass.

@cpt191021

2 жыл бұрын

OY VEy

In the 80s, Egypt would start buying weapons from the 80s.

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Always respected Nasser, I would have shut down the Suez Canal *permanently* until USA stopped supplying Israel with arms.

Isreal defeated the Arab armies every time despite being outnumbered. Either the Arabs make very poor soldiers, or Soviet military doctrine and or equipment, they were trained in/on has always been bad. I suspect it's the latter, given the bad performance of the Russian army in Ukraine today.

@samantharay6098

11 ай бұрын

lol tell us you have no clue about ukraine without telling us

@Medicus_Asur

11 ай бұрын

​@@samantharay6098 True! A couple more goodwill acts and strategic redeployments and it's over for Ukraine