Cold War Movies

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

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

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

Built at the height of the Cold War to withstand a five-megaton nuclear assault, the Diefenbunker is a massive underground, four-storey,...

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...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept...

Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government...

When a Warp Drive breaks on Captain Natasha Vigo's ship, her and the crew hire American Space Mechanic Del McGriff. Yet when McGriff begins to fix...

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

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

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

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for...

A Soviet nerve gas turns Czechoslovakian schoolkids into zombies

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