Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Aylam Orian

Self - Vladimir Putin· 9 ep

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)· 5 ep

Harry S. Truman

Self - President of the United States 1945 - 1953 (archive footage)· 3 ep

Joseph Stalin

Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage)· 3 ep

Condoleezza Rice

Self· 3 ep

Tom Nichols

Self - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College· 3 ep

Garrett M. Graff

Self - Author, Raven Rock· 3 ep

Tim Naftali

Self - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University· 3 ep

Tom Z. Collina

Self - Co-Author, The Button· 3 ep

Gregg Herken

Self - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb· 3 ep

Alex Wellerstein

Self - Author, Restricted Data· 3 ep

Serhii Plokhy

Self - The Russo-Ukrainian War· 3 ep

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Self - President of Ukraine (archive footage)· 3 ep

David Holloway

Self - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms Race· 3 ep

Winston Churchill

Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945 (archive footage)· 3 ep

Albert Einstein

Self - Physicist (archive footage)· 2 ep

Hillary Clinton

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

Mary Elise Sarotte

Self - Author, Not One Inch· 2 ep

Giorgi Kandelaki

Self - Georgian Politician & Historian· 2 ep

Rose Gottemoeller

Self - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019· 2 ep

Kaja Kallas

Self - Prime Minister of Estonia· 2 ep

Audra J. Wolfe

Self - Author, Freedom's Laboratory· 2 ep

Stephen Kinzer

Self - Author, Overthrow· 2 ep

Kathleen Bailey

Self - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1985 - 1987· 2 ep

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)· 2 ep

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self - Physicist (archive footage)· 2 ep

Masha Lipman

Self - Russian Journalist· 2 ep

Tim Weiner

Self - Author, Legacy of Ashes· 2 ep

Nina Khrushcheva

Self - Professor of International Affairs, The New School· 2 ep

Scott Anderson

Self - Author, The Quiet Americans· 2 ep

Pavel Litvinov

Self - Soviet Dissident· 2 ep

Anne Applebaum

Self - Author, Red Famine· 2 ep

Lori Clune

Self - Author, Executing the Rosenbergs· 2 ep

Daniel Ellsberg

Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964· 2 ep

Lavrentiy Beria

Self - Chief of Soviet Police (archive footage)· 2 ep

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - President of the United States 1933 - 1945 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Adolf Hitler

Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)· 1 ep

Angela Merkel

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Tony Blair

Self· 1 ep

Viktor Yushchenko

Self· 1 ep

Viktor Yanukovich

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Helmut Kohl

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Pope John Paul II

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Egon Krenz

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Günter Schabowski

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Yuri Andropov

Self (archive footage)· 1 ep

Robert Gates

Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001· 1 ep

Garry Kasparov

Self - Russian Chess Grandmaster· 1 ep

Pavel Palazchenko

Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev· 1 ep

Sam Nunn

Self - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative· 1 ep

Lesley M.M. Blume

Self - Author, Fallout· 1 ep

Richard Rhodes

Self - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb· 1 ep

Akira Yamada

Self - Professor of History, Meiji University· 1 ep

J. Samuel Walker

Self - Author, Prompt and Utter Destruction· 1 ep

Kazuhiko Togo

Self - Grandson of Shigenori Tôgô· 1 ep

Ukeru Magosaki

Self - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999· 1 ep

Howard Kakita

Self - Japanese-American· 1 ep

Gar Alperovitz

Self - Author, Atomic Diplomacy· 1 ep

Keiko Ogura

Self - Hiroshima Resident· 1 ep

Kunihiko Ida

Self - Hiroshima Resident· 1 ep

Teruko Yahata

Self - Hiroshima Resident· 1 ep

Kingo Kawahara

Self - Hiroshima Resident· 1 ep

Masaaki Takano

Self - Hiroshima Resident· 1 ep

James L. Nolan Jr.

Self - Author, Atomic Doctors· 1 ep

Joe Biden

Self - President of the United States (archive footage)· 1 ep

Eva Braun

Self - Wife of Adolf Hitler (archive footage)· 1 ep

Karma Deane

Self - Dance Instructor (archive footage)· 1 ep

Karl Dönitz

Self - German Grand Admiral (archive sound)· 1 ep

Leslie Groves

Self - Brigadier General, U.S. Army (archive footage)· 1 ep

Otto Hahn

Self - Chemist (archive footage)· 1 ep

John Hersey

Self - Journalist (archive footage)· 1 ep

Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Self - Emperor of Japan 1926 - 1989 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Frank Hiroji Kakita

Self - Howard's Father (archive footage)· 1 ep

Tomiko Kakita

Self - Howard's Mother (archive footage)· 1 ep

Lise Meitner

Self - Physicist (archive footage)· 1 ep

Henry L. Stimson

Self - U.S. Secretary of War 1940 - 1945 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Fritz Strassmann

Self - Chemist (archive footage)· 1 ep

Shigenori Tōgō

Self - Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs 1945 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Yoshijirô Umezu

Self - Japan Chief of the Army General Staff 1944 - 1945 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Self - German Foreign Minister 1938 - 1945 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Susan Glasser

Self - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising· 1 ep

Arkady Ostrovsky

Self - Author, The Invention of Russia· 1 ep

Timothy Garton Ash

Self - Author, Homelands· 1 ep

Jens Stoltenberg

Self - Secretary General of NATO· 1 ep

Miles Yu

Self - Professor of East Asia Military History, U.S. Naval Academy· 1 ep

Robert Meeropol

Self - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg· 1 ep

Becky Jenkins

Self - Daughter of American Communists· 1 ep

Donald Ritchie

Self - Senate Historian Emeritus· 1 ep

Howard A. Rodman

Self - Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences· 1 ep

Lee Grant

Self - Actress· 1 ep

Larry Tye

Self - Author, Demagogue· 1 ep

Herbert J. Biberman

Self - Director & Screenwriter (archive footage)· 1 ep

J. Edward Bromberg

Self - Actor (archive footage)· 1 ep

Roy Cohn

Self - Chief Counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy (archive footage)· 1 ep

Bob Considine

Self - Journalist (archive footage)· 1 ep

Gary Cooper

Self - Actor (archive footage)· 1 ep

Friedrich Engels

Self - Political Theorist (archive footage)· 1 ep

James Forrestal

Self - First Secretary of Defense 1947 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Klaus Fuchs

Self - German Theoretical Physicist & Atomic Spy (archive footage)· 1 ep

Harry Gold

Self - Spy Courier (archive footage)· 1 ep

David Greenglass

Self - U.S. Machinist & Atomic Spy for Soviet Union (archive footage)· 1 ep

Ruth Greenglass

Self - Wife of David Greenglass (archive footage)· 1 ep

Andrei Gurulyov

Self - State Duma Party (archive footage)· 1 ep

Johan Kartus

Self - Kaja Kallas' Grandfather(archive footage)· 1 ep

Kristi Kartus

Self - Kaja Kallas' Mother (archive footage)· 1 ep

Veera Kartus

Self - Kaja Kallas' Grandmother(archive footage)· 1 ep

George Kennan

Self - Chargé d'Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Moscow (archive footage)· 1 ep

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)· 1 ep

Maxim Litvinov

Self - Founding Member of the Bolsheviks (archive footage)· 1 ep

Mao Zedong

Self - Leader of China 1943 - 1976 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Karl Marx

Self - Political Theorist (archive footage)· 1 ep

Joseph McCarthy

Self - U.S. Senator, Wisconsin (archive footage)· 1 ep

Michael Meeropol

Self - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg (archive footage)· 1 ep

Leonid Ramzin

Self - Engineer Accused of Plotting Coup (archive footage)· 1 ep

Ethel Rosenberg

Self - Atomic Spy (archive footage)· 1 ep

Julius Rosenberg

Self - Atomic Spy (archive footage)· 1 ep

Irving Saypol

Self - Chief Prosecutor (archive footage)· 1 ep

Stuart Symington

Self - U.S. Senator, Missouri (archive footage)· 1 ep

Edward Teller

Self - U.S. Nuclear Physicist (archive footage)· 1 ep

J. Parnell Thomas

Self - Chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities (archive footage)· 1 ep

Lev Trotskiy

Self - Marxist Revolutionary (archive footage)· 1 ep

Dalton Trumbo

Self - Screenwriter (archive footage)· 1 ep

Fred Trump

Self - New York Real Estate Developer (archive footage)· 1 ep

Joseph N. Welch

Self - Special Counsel for the Army (archive footage)· 1 ep

Gennady Zyuganov

Self - Leader of Russian Communist Party Faction (archive footage)· 1 ep

Terumi Tanaka

Self - Nagasaki Survivor, Anti-Nuclear Advocate· 1 ep

Peter Sichel

Self - OSS Officer 1942 - 1947· 1 ep

Milton Bearden

Self - CIA, Clandestine Services 1964 - 1994· 1 ep

Ervand Abrahamian

Self - Author, The Coup· 1 ep

David Remnick

Self - Editor, The New Yorker· 1 ep

Peter Kornbluh

Self - Director Cuba Documentation Project· 1 ep

Joseph Alsop

Self - New York Herald Tribune (archive footage)· 1 ep

Stewart Alsop

Self - New York Herald Tribune (archive footage)· 1 ep

Jacobo Árbenz

Self - President of Guatemala (archive footage)· 1 ep

Carlos Castillo Armas

Self - Lieutenant Colonel, Guatemalan Army (archive footage)· 1 ep

Ladislav Bittman

Self - Czechoslovak Secret Service Defector (archive footage)· 1 ep

Kyrylo Budanov

Self - Ukraine Intelligence (archive footage)· 1 ep

Allen Dulles

Self - Chief of Office of Strategic Services (archive footage)· 1 ep

John Foster Dulles

Self - Secretary of State 1953 - 1959 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Self - Founder of the Cheka, Precursor to the KGB (archive footage)· 1 ep

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - President of the United States 1953 -1961 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Richard Helms

Self - intelligence Officer, Office of Strategic Services (archive footage)· 1 ep

Herman Kahn

Self - Physics Division (archive footage)· 1 ep

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1953 - 1964 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Stanislav Demchenko

Self - KGB Defector (archive footage)· 1 ep

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Self - Prime Minister of Iran (archive footage)· 1 ep

Richard Nixon

Self - Vice President of the United States 1953 -1961 (archive footage)· 1 ep

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Self - Shah of Iran 1941 - 1979 (archive footage)· 1 ep

William Paley

Self - Chief Executive CBS (archive footage)· 1 ep

Kim Philby

Self - Head of British Intelligence in Washington, Soviet Double Agent (archive footage)· 1 ep

Vitaliy Rudenko

Self - Ukrainian National Guard (archive footage)· 1 ep

Sergii Solodchenko

Self - Volunteer, Battle of Hostomel (archive footage)· 1 ep

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Self - New York Times Publisher 1935 - 1961 (archive footage)· 1 ep