Cold War Movies

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers success...

A homemaker's battle with eight legged karma.

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Isl...

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 story...

The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and fa...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from initiati...

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,...

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no lon...

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 bl...

In 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home....

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time, on...

The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, the consequences of which still reverberate dow...

A remarkable examination of the forces behind the Civil Rights Movement in 1960’s America. Drawing parallels between successful communist insurrection...

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

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival...