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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic 1969 moon landing, the pinnacle of America's space race fascination, is explored through the eyes of those who witnessed Apollo 11's achievement.

The infamous Emerald Triangle of Northern California is known for unsolved murders and a culture of silence. Two sisters return home to the ranch to try to solve a murder, and face the criminal underbelly of their once peaceful hometown.

The Cold War started in the same place that World War II ended: Berlin. On the Eastern side, the collectivist, state-centered world of Joseph Stalin's communist ideology, armed to the teeth with conventional forces. On the Western side was a war-weary alliance of capitalist countries, led by the beacon of individual rights, the United States. Part 1 of What We Saw: The Cold War, peels back the layers of mystery cloaking the terror state run by the Kremlin, and watches America taking its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the fragile alliance between the Allied countries in the west and Stalin's Red Army, came to an end. Stalin looked for opportunities to expand communism, hoping America would withdraw its troops.

Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, but from outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declining morale, a light appears in the middle of America's darkest night.