Cold War Movies

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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...

Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the events that took place in Hungary as...

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...

This commemorative video examines the life and political career of the late Ronald Reagan, America's 40th president. Interviews with family members...

A group of people move to a half-finished building, but soon a Cold War occurs between some of them. Based on a play.

Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic premise to show how emergency staff should manage and...

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run...

"Our Cities Must Fight" is a civil defense film that was produced for the U.S. government to illustrate the importance of not abandoning urban...

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

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

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

An exploration of the reality of potential nuclear attacks on the United States with an emphasis that survival is possible. It outlines key...

This Cold War civil defense film attempts to persuade viewers that building a home fallout shelter is a smart thing to do, and they are easy and...

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct...

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

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