 The series was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on May 8, 2012 in North America.The archival footage has been cropped for widescreen presentation instead of being left in the original format 

The series excluded several Cold War issues and topics, including the Communist takeovers of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in 1975, the subsequent unification of Vietnam and Vietnamese refugee crisis, the failed Communist revolution in Indonesia in 1965, China after Mao's passing, from the trial of the Gang of Four to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Bulgaria, Albania, and more details on the Dominican crisis of 1965.Each episode lasts approximately 46 minutes.