Topic: Cold War

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast James Cagney · Pamela Tiffin · Horst Buchholz · Arlene Francis

Plot Comedy about Coca-Cola's man in West Berlin, who may be fired if he can't keep his American boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.

Direction Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Martina Gedeck · Sebastian Koch · Ulrich Tukur

Plot East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones

Plot Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Plot A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly...

Direction Scott Frank · Allan Scott

Cast Anya Taylor-Joy · Isla Johnston · Annabeth Kelly · Bill Camp

Plot TV Miniseries. 7 one-hour episodios. Kentucky in the 50s. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game...

Direction Tessa Coombs

Plot A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ava Gardner · Burt Lancaster · Fredric March

Plot At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has...

Direction John Irvin

Cast Alec Guinness · Ian Richardson · Michael Jayston · Ian Bannen

Plot George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is...

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Russell Crowe · Jennifer Connelly · Ed Harris · Paul Bettany

Plot Obsessed with finding a truly original mathematical idea, the brilliant student John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton in 1947 for graduate study – as an outsider, a loner,...

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Alec Guinness · Eileen Atkins · Bernard Hepton · Bill Paterson

Plot George Smiley is once again called out of innocent retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee. The shy and retiring master...

Direction Mariano Llinás

Cast Elisa Carricajo · Valeria Correa · Pilar Gamboa · Laura Paredes

Direction Mariano Llinás

Cast Pilar Gamboa · Elisa Carricajo · Laura Paredes · Valeria Correa

Plot "La flor" is broken into six separate episodes, connected only by an on-screen appearance by Llinás explaining the film's structure. The first four episodes have the beginning of a story...

Direction Errol Morris

Cast Robert McNamara

Plot Documentary about Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, who subsequently became president of the World Bank. "Fog of War" combines an interview with McNamara discussing...

Direction Gabe Polsky

Plot ‘Red Army’ Explores Russian Hockey During Cold War. Following the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, RED ARMY tells the story of the nation's famed Red Army...

Direction Joseph Weisberg · Daniel Sackheim · Adam Arkin · John Dahl

Cast Keri Russell · Matthew Rhys · Holly Taylor · Keidrich Sellati

Plot TV Series (2013-2018). 6 Seasons. 75 Episodes. The premise is that a group of Soviet KGB officers have been trained to impersonate American citizens, so that each one can become...

Direction Brad Bird

Plot The Iron Giant follows the incredible adventures of young Hogarth Hughes who late one night discovers and befriends an enormous robot fallen from the stars. But Hogarth now has a...

Direction Robert Littell · Mikael Salomon

Cast Chris O'Donnell · Michael Keaton · Alfred Molina · Rory Cochrane

Plot Spy vs. spy. Three Yale grads, class of 1954, join their respective countries' secret service. We follow them for 40 years - through the outing of a British spy, the...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Edward G. Robinson · Elke Sommer · Anna Lee

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Frank Sinatra · Laurence Harvey · Janet Leigh · Angela Lansbury

Plot In Korea in 1952, a US Army patrol is ambushed by Communist soldiers. A year later the squad, having escaped, returns to the US, where Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence...

Direction Brian Knappenberger

Cast Jens Stoltenberg

Plot The series chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir...