Cold War Movies

In the Americanbom, educational films, newsreel footage and old television shows are appropriated for a sardonic exploration of nuclear age values....

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the...

August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion with old friends - but their world is about to...

Based on the novel by Anthony Price and originally aired in the UK as part of the "Chessgame" television series, this British spy thriller stars...

Captain Jim Leslie, a US Air Force pilot, is transferred to a remote Alaskan base not far from the Soviet border. Here he meets his old friend Harris...

In 1982, one year after the Soviet submarine U-137 had been found beached in Swedish waters, the Swedish government claimed to have captured another...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the...

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch...

An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.

In an alternate 1990s where the Cold War rages on, a Soviet cosmonaut and her crew investigate a distress signal from an American space station, only...

The disastrous first combat patrol of the K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine.

Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual participants in this riveting program. After an American naval...

The author reports on the secret submarine operations of the USA and the Soviet Union, including "risky espionage missions by US combat swimmers in...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. ...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from the perimeter of the former Semipalatinsk Test...

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).