The 4-part documentary series shows the development of media manipulation, from the heavy handed and sometimes comical propaganda of the 50s to the 'black operations' of intelligence agencies in the 60s to the finely-tuned spin machines of the 80s. It reveals how governments and the industries of persuasion - marketing advertising and public relations - operate in shaping what we believe.

Title from container. Special features: Bomb shelters, CBC the journal, January 1990; Opening up diefenbunker; Kids on the moon; Why the Kremlin hates bananas; Fall out shelter (The McCallum family) and emergency measures organization; Duck and cover.

Disc 1. In the shadow of fear ; Turning up the heat -- Disc 2. Cracks in the wall ; War of words -- Disc. 3. Special features.