Cold War Movies

Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns...

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the...

Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living. From the cycle of...

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz...

A documentary about US-led covert actions under the Reagan administration intended to bolster the perception of Soviet aggression, undermine the...

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be...

Documentary about the Cold War spy George Blake, who betrayed his colleagues to the KGB, then escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled...

"Salute to Reagan" is a celebration of those many great moments when Reagan awakened within us a forgotten patriotism, a renewed optimism and, often,...

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

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival...

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...