Cold War Movies

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...

In the Americanbom, educational films, newsreel footage and old television shows are appropriated for a sardonic exploration of nuclear age values....

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
 Nearly 300 watchtowers., over 250 dog runs, twenty bunkers.
 Sixty-five​...

Where the Wind Blew, looks at the legacy of nuclear bomb testing during the Cold War in Kazakhstan (USSR) and Nevada (USA) told through the eyes of...

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

The dilemmas of a journalist when he accepts a contract to make a Civil Defence film for showing on TV in the event of nuclear war.

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard...

Documentary about the Cold War spy George Blake, who betrayed his colleagues to the KGB, then escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from the perimeter of the former Semipalatinsk Test...

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...

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

Chronicling the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940s, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after...

Presents the fears and anxieties of children regarding nuclear war. Through their reflections, it captures the overwhelming dread of potential...

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

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

A journey into Electronic Body Music’s iconic sound, featuring exclusive interviews with the original pioneers of the 80’s.