Poster of Cast and Crew in Days That Shook The World - Season 2 - Episode 9 - Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel

Days That Shook The World - Season 2 - Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel (Episode 9)

Plot: 1 May 1960 and 18 February 1962 These two stories from the height of the Cold War illustrate the mistrust and suspicion of an era. A spy plane shot down from the skies over Russia and the eventual dramatic exchange of the pilot for a Russian spy across a bridge in Berlin
Episode Aired On:
Thursday, July 1 2004
20 years ago