Cold War Movies

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

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...

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

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

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...

Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how Italy regained national sovereignty and...

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

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

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

August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion with old friends - but their world is about to...

Cold War Peacemaker is the amazing and unique story of the development of the B-36 very-long-long-range nuclear bomber. From its beginnings during...

After months of negotiations, U.S. and Russian forces join together to save the tiger. For Jeff Cox, big game animal trainer, it’s a dream come...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the events that took place in Hungary as...

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...

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

"Salute to Reagan" is a celebration of those many great moments when Reagan awakened within us a forgotten patriotism, a renewed optimism and, often,...

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.

Documentary directed by Tom Kleespie inspired from Korean War veterans who recall memories both painful and patriotic, putting a human face on an...