Submarine Reactor

For forty years, the Cold War was also waged beneath the sea between the United States and the USSR. Submarines faced submarines in close-quarter encounters which could have triggered major conflicts on many occasions.

Fourteen years in the making and costing over a billion pounds, the Astute nuclear submarine is one of the most technologically advanced machines in the world, and for over a year the BBC filmed its construction inside one of the most secure and secret places in the country. An amazing piece of British engineering or a controversial waste of tax payers' money? This documentary allows viewers to make up their own minds.

The true story of the disastrous first combat patrol of the Hotel Class submarine K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine. Story was later made into a movie starring Harrison Ford, but this is a real-life documentary on K-19 including rare footage, interviews, and computer simulated footage.