Cold War Movies

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

In a research station in the Soviet military area of Beregavoye, a gas was developed to destroy the armies of the enemies of socialism. However, the g...

A journey into Electronic Body Music’s iconic sound, featuring exclusive interviews with the original pioneers of the 80’s.

Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how Italy regained national sovereignty and appreciatio...

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants...

At the height of the Cold War, Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire a respected general officer in the Swiss Armed Forces was accused of passing highly sens...

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

In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier that would be extended and become increasingly mor...

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...

An exploration of the reality of potential nuclear attacks on the United States with an emphasis that survival is possible. It outlines key strategies...

A homemaker's battle with eight legged karma.

Discusses the physics, effects and defense against nuclear fallout. Describes the phenomena of natural radiation and the dangers of fallout. Explains...

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept of...

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

East German documentary/propaganda film about Berlin Wall border guards

This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides inform...

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run schools...