Cold War Movies

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Nixon’s China Game, the story of an operation so secret that it managed to elude the international press, the...

The author reports on the secret submarine operations of the USA and the Soviet Union, including "risky espionage missions by US combat swimmers in...

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of...

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz...

Declassified documents from the Cold War shine light into the hidden communications between the US and the Soviet Union during the heavy tensions....

In 1982, one year after the Soviet submarine U-137 had been found beached in Swedish waters, the Swedish government claimed to have captured another...

At an isolated outpost in the Arctic, the pioneering spirit of the Space Race clashes with the suspicions of the Cold War.

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

Bonn, West Germany, 1974, in the middle of the Cold War. Young government official Sophie Zimmermann is being hunted and the only way to survive is...

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

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

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch...

An autopsy of a stagnant century. Archival debris and flickering propaganda assemble into a rhythmic collage where the Cold War persists as...

'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most...

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

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

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

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

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