A series of ten films about the Cold War in Europe
7: How Thin was the Ice?
Why did Khrushchev create the Berlin crisis of 1958-62? How did the West respond, and why? And what did the crisis teach both sides about the nature of peaceful co-existence, and about the question of the two Germanys? Introduced by John Tusa with ' Rt Hon Harold Macmillan
W. W. Rostow , Dean Rusk
Director JOHN EIDINOW Producer HOWARD SMITH
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