The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

Season 1 • Episode 6: Super Power • Watch with subtitles

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Super Power

Episode 6: Super Power

April 16, 2013 • 45 min

As the 1980s draw to a close, the Cold War might be thawing, but the Berlin Wall still stands. America deploys a powerful ‘weapon’ to hasten its fall: pop culture. American movies, TV shows, music, and even the news, carry U.S. values and ideas out to the world and into the Soviet Bloc, swaying hearts and minds.

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