Cold War Movies

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

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

Educational film for civil defense personnel on requirements for a fallout shelter. Explains types of shelters and degrees of protection.

Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have...

Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force...

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...

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
 Nearly 300 watchtowers., over 250 dog runs, twenty bunkers.
 Sixty-five​...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the...

In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the...

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection systems are explained.

Two female members of the Soviet military are supposed to kidnap the new American secret weapon at a disarmament conference. The highlight is the...

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulation model is now underway to mitigate the effects...

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...

A group of people move to a half-finished building, but soon a Cold War occurs between some of them. Based on a play.

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...