Cold War Movies

A Soviet sailor travels to the West for the first time. In Hamburg, he hopes to find his missing brother. But German secret service agents,...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe. She...

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...

"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...

In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier that would be extended and become increasingly...

Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate the CIA.

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care...

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation...

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

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.

A girl and a boy meet by a chance in unaware of consequences on one day. A modern parable inspired by true events.

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...

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...

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside...

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

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

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major...

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship in a Berlin Park.

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.