Cold War Movies

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

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...

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard...

A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.

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

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

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

Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time,...

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear...

A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on...

Bonn, West Germany, 1974, in the middle of the Cold War. Young government official Sophie Zimmermann is being hunted and the only way to survive is...

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a one of its own.

A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is turned upside down as she must justify her...

An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya, the world's largest cargo plane and the pride of Ukraine, was destroyed in a Russian attack on Hostomel airport near Kyiv...

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But...

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they...