Cold War Movies

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

A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear...

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...

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz,...

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

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they...

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to...

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist...

1963 Military Industrialist Arthur Blackmark must race against the clock to stop an international incident which threatens to end the world.

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence...

As the 2024 elections approach, Russian interference in American politics – through spies or agents of influence – is a troubling...

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile...

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged...

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to...

1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a...