This documentary is quite a good summary of the cold war era:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/078062386X/

A CNN production, a rather mainstream non-European source.

Just an FYI: CNN isn't considered to be unbiased by many Americans.
They are to the Left what Fox News is to the Right, politically.

(Somewhere in the middle is probably the "Truth" -- although I'm
partial to National Public Radio meself...)

Unfortunately VHS and rather expensive.

Holy crap, $175? You're not kidding...
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