Cold War Movies

Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's role in the design and construction of the...

For three months each year, you can walk from the USA to Russia across an ice bridge—a frozen path known as the Ice Curtain. In 1963, when the...

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

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...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after...

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...

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

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship...

In the fall of 1979, a wounded federal agent collapses into his reclusive neighbor’s apartment, causing a routine night to spiral into a...

A Bangladeshi American undertakes a journey to learn about the liberation war in his native country, traveling there for the first time in nearly two...

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

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War,...

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

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators,...

Set in an alternate Cold War America, President Keates and the First Lady are secured deep below ground after retaliatory action.

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

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

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

Documentary about the Cold War spy George Blake, who betrayed his colleagues to the KGB, then escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled...