Cold War Movies

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

The film features a meeting led by Dave Taylor, the shelter manager, discussing the protocols and responsibilities for staff members involved in...

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

In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the...

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are...

A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed to function after a nuclear attack. This scenario...

Discusses the physics, effects and defense against nuclear fallout. Describes the phenomena of natural radiation and the dangers of fallout. Explains...

Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection systems are explained.

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

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

The invasion of the Bay of Pigs (Cuba, 1961) is revealed to us 60 years later, in the voice of the vanquished. Recounted with the distance of a...

An overview of the lives of Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, focusing on the geopolitical forces that led to their meeting in 1972 and the resulting...

On November 24th, 1971, a man traveling under the pseudonym of Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, demanding a $200,000 ransom, before fleeing by...

A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulation model is now underway to mitigate the effects...