Cold War Movies

In an alternate 1990s where the Cold War rages on, a Soviet cosmonaut and her crew investigate a distress signal from an American space station, only...

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, inquisitiv...

Educational film for civil defense personnel on requirements for a fallout shelter. Explains types of shelters and degrees of protection.

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting its colle...

Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government i...

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

The "Great Communicator" -- the 40th U.S. president -- is the subject of this in-depth documentary that draws on the insights of Ronald Reagan's polit...

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,...

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 true,...

Red Terror documents the soviet occupation of Lithuania and the resistance movements that sprang up in opposition to the brutal tactics used by the co...

This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides inform...

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the Soviet Union continued with the Western countries,...

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

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 WWI...

A man named Walt who has recently completed building a fallout shelter in his home, a project initiated due to the threat of nuclear war during the Co...

That the Cold War did not end in blood and tears was Radio Free Europe’s ultimate victory. “To Russia with Love” tells how it won the hearts and minds...

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

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...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.