American Heroes Channel offers a rare glimpse into events and battles that shaped our world.

AMERICAN HEROES

In 1989, the USSR pulls out of Afghanistan and the last remaining proxy conflict of the Cold War ends. A new era emerges as brutal barriers are broken down. A peaceful transition is what the watching world prays for, but is by no means a sure thing.

Cold War Armageddon

Falling Dominoes

In the early 1980s the next battlefield in the struggle between communism and democracy, emerges in the United States' own backyard. The Cold War is an arms race, a propaganda battle and at times a deadly game.

Warmonger

By the end of the 70s, war between East and West has been raging for decades. Countless proxy wars have proven how destructive this so-called Cold War can be. It's an arms race, a propaganda battle and at times a deadly game.

Cold War II

Joseph Stalin is long gone by the 1970s, but Russia's determination to win the nuclear arms race strengthens; advances in nuclear technology pours fuel on the fire in the international arms race.

Peace and War

The stakes couldn't be higher in the 60's as the USSR places nuclear warheads in Cuba, the first US troops arrive in Vietnam, the world witnesses the moon landing.

Cold War Hot War

Russia seals itself behind an Iron Curtain, spawning the birth of revolutions across East Europe as the bitter rivalry between capitalism and communism rages from Berlin to Havana and all the way to Outer Space.

Revolution

The stalemate between democracy and communism reaches a fever pitch as the world descends further into chaos and closer to the edge of WWIII.

Paranoia

During the four decades of the Cold War, two global superpowers face off, poised for swift and terrible action, threatening to annihilate one another, with the push of a button.

Rise of the Superpowers

For four decades, two global superpowers face off, poised for swift and terrible action.

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