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The Cold War television documentary archive consists of transcripts of 531 interviews concerning events of the Cold War - the political, ideological tension between the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), 1946-1989, following the end of World War Two, which while falling short of actual war between these two nations, was evident in their foreign and defence policies, and those of their allies.

Interviews were conducted with eyewitnesses from the US, USSR, Germany, Poland, Britain, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain, Vietnam, Korea, China, Israel Egypt, South Africa, Angola, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and including politicians, policy makers and advisors, diplomats, journalists, academics, members of armed forces, dissidents, peasants, factory workers and civilians.

Events described include the Berlin blockade, 1948-1949, the Berlin Crisis, 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962, the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, the Korean War, 1950-1953, the Hungarian uprising, 1956, the Prague Spring, 1968, the nuclear arms race, 1945-1991, and Chinese communism, 1949-1972.

The collections also contains transcripts of a series of seminars on the Cold War, Oct 1995, as well as an incomplete series of files relating to individual episodes of the documentary series including annotated extracts of interview transcripts and other production information. (Transcripts in this section of the collection are mainly duplicates, however there are a small number which are not found in the main transcript series).

Typescript transcript of interview with Park So Boon, civilian North Korea, 1948, relating to the rule of Kim Il Sung, her experiences during the Korean War, moving around the area of the 38th parallel, visiting [Sinmak] and [Namch'on], Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea, 1950-1953. 8pp

Programme 1, Russian transcripts'.Includes brief content indices of transcripts of interviews with Soviet citizens relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 1 Comrades: 1917-1945, and annotated copies of transcripts of interviews with Sergo Beria, Alexander Gordayev, Yevgeni Khaldei, Wolfgang Leonhard, Luibov Kozinchenko, Ivan Legchilin, Aishe and Fadime Memedshanova, Ernst Niezvestny, David Ortenberg, Vladimir Yerofeyev, and Victoria Zlobina.

Programme 1, Western interviews'. Includes thematic indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 1 Comrades: 1917-1945, and brief content indices and annotated copies of transcripts of interviews with Alfred Aronson, George Elsey, James Griffith, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, Jim Kane, George Kennan, Hugh Lunghi, Frank Roberts and Prof Robert Tucker.

Programme 2 Russian interviews'.Includes copies of extracts of transcripts, annotated transcripts and brief transcript content indices for interviews with Soviet citizens relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 2 Iron Curtain: 1945-1957, including Alexander Gordeyev, Yevgeni Khaldei, Konstantin Koval, Luibov Kozinchenko, Lev Mischenko, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Victoria Zlobina, and Lev Kopelev.

Interviews programme 2'.Includes copies of annotated transcripts and extracts from transcripts of interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 2 Iron Curtain: 1945-1947, including interviews with Alfred Aronson, George Elsey, Prof J K Galbraith, George F Kennan, Sir Frank Roberts, and Prof R Tucker. Also contains brief contents lists for the Roberts transcript.

File of copies of transcripts, extracts of transcripts, annotated transcripts and brief transcript content indices for interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 4 Berlin: 1948-1949, including interviews with Noël Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan (Lord Annan), Ella Barowsky, Clark Clifford, Edloe Donan, Gale Halvorsen, Wg Cdr Donald Hanson, Christine Heimlich, Sir Freddie Laker, Wolfgang Leonhard, Robert Lochner, Karl Mautner, Paul Nitze, Sir Frank Roberts, Etza Reuter, Hildegard Herrberger, Heinz Weber, and Stefan Doernberg.

Russian language interviews, Berlin 1948-1948, programme 4'.File of annotated transcripts of interviews with Russian speaking eyewitnesses of events relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 4 Berlin 1948-1949, including interviews with Mikhail Semiryaga, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Yakov Drabkin, and, Konstantin Koval.

File of annotated transcripts of interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 7 After Stalin: 1953-1957, including interviews with Charles Wheeler, Robert Bowie, Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Flora Lewis, S Peter Karlow, Robert Lochner, Martha Mautner, Jan Nowak, Alfred Berlin, Wilhelm Grewe, Werner Herbig, Heinz Homuth, Etza Reuter, Fritz Schenk, Karl Eduard von Schnitzler, Klaus Schutz, and Karl Schirdewan.

Vietnam transcripts 1'.File of annotated interview transcripts, and extracts of transcripts, relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 11 Vietnam: 1954-1968, including interviews with Paula Hixenbaugh, Jack Joseph Valenti, Daniel Ellsberg, George Forrest, Bui Diem, Morton Halperin, Gen William Westmoreland, Adm James Bond Stockdale, Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Country Joe McDonald, Walt Whitman Rostow, Roger Hilsman, Philip Caputo, and Robert Strange McNamara.

Vietnam transcripts 2, Vietnamese and Russian'.File of annotated interview transcripts, and extracts of transcripts, relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 11 Vietnam: 1954-1968, including interviews with Anatoly Dobrynin, Igor Yershov, Igor Ognietov, Oleg Troyanovski, Dinh Cong Ty (Vietnamese with English translation), Tong Viet Duong, Tran Bach Dang, Bui Van Tung, Gen Vo Nguyen Giap, Kim Ngoc Quang, Truong Tuong Vi, and English translation of Vietnamese songs by Huang Hiep.

File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 10 Cuba: 1959-1963, including interviews with Ambassador Alexsandr Ivanovich Alekseyev, Anatoly Bondarev, Nikolay Bieloborodov, Grigory Danilevich, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Aleksandr Feklisov, Boris Goncharov, Gen Anatoly Gribkov, and Oleg Troyanovski.

File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 12 MAD: 1960-1972, including interviews with Nikolay Nikolaevich Detinov, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Alexei Kalashnikov, Gennady Serusevich Kudriavtsev, Valentin Larionov, Mikhail Mokrinsky, Vassily Ambrosovich Poliakov, Maria Stepanova, Yuri Vsevolovich Vontintsev, and Nikolay Idalich Usenko.

File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 14 Red Spring: 1960s, including interviews with Marta Bistrovova, Milos Forman, Zdenek Mylnar, Eva Zidkova, Pavel Kohont, Vera Chytilova, Victor Konshin, Petr Sinchenkov, Vasil Bilak, Milos Forman, Eduard Goldstucker, Vaclav Havel.

File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 15 China: 1949-1972, including interviews with John Paton Davies, Marshall Green, Marvin Liebman, Robert Bowie, Winston Lord, Tim Boggan, Stepan Chervonenko, Ivan Arkhipov, Oleg Vaskov, Fedor Mochulski, Lev Deluisin, Petr Sinchenkov, Nikolai Fedorenko, Chen Youwei, Wu Ningkun, Liu Binyan, Su Shaozhi, Ruan Ming, and Ge Yang.

US interviews'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978, including interviews with Nathaniel Davis, Henry Alfred Kissinger, Robert Strange McNamara, Edward Mulcahy, Joseph Sisco, John Stockwell, David Tomkins, Paul Bernard, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and James Earl Carter.

File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 9 The wall: 1958-1963, including interviews with Peter Florin, Pierre Salinger, Wilhelm Grewe, John Mapother, George F Kennan, Gen Andrew Goodpaster, Robert Lochner, Robert Strange McNamara, Martha Mautner, Walt Whitman Rostow, Anatoly Dobrynin, Valentin Falin, Anatoly Gribkov, Yuli Kvitsinsky, Sergei Khrushchev, Oleg Troyanovski, Egon Bahr, Dr Rainer Barzel, Hermann Borchert, Brigitte Flunker, Stefan Heym, Ella Hofer, Conrad Schumann, Klaus Schutz, Willi Bickel, Werner Eberlein, Peter Florin, Hagen Koch, Maria Pelchen, Sir Frank Roberts.