Cold War Movies

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

A Soviet nerve gas turns Czechoslovakian schoolkids into zombies

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for...

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

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

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

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

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

This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a...

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

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

A training film for public shelter managers explaining when people should be allowed to leave the shelter after a disaster.

During the Falklands War, a team of Vulcan Bombers staged the longest bombing raid ever attempted. We tell the amazing story of the machines that...

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