Cold War Movies

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

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

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War,...

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are...

A homemaker's battle with eight legged karma.

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship...

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

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their...

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...

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 1982, one year after the Soviet submarine U-137 had been found beached in Swedish waters, the Swedish government claimed to have captured another...

Educational film for civil defense personnel on requirements for a fallout shelter. Explains types of shelters and degrees of protection.

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's role in the design and construction of the...

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...

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

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