Cold War Movies

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves b...

Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch...

Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government i...

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are suppo...

"Salute to Reagan" is a celebration of those many great moments when Reagan awakened within us a forgotten patriotism, a renewed optimism and, often,...

Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its state-of-the-art civil defense system.

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometo...

When a Warp Drive breaks on Captain Natasha Vigo's ship, her and the crew hire American Space Mechanic Del McGriff. Yet when McGriff begins to fix the...

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard stri...

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

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

A homemaker's battle with eight legged karma.

This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a...

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are crea...

In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. T...

Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate the CIA.

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be re...