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A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers success...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war a...

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

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

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatl...

The dilemmas of a journalist when he accepts a contract to make a Civil Defence film for showing on TV in the event of nuclear war.

Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have...

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. T...

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Vikto...

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation...

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into...

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

Men from Russia and the United States join forces to prevent a powerful drug ring from achieving global domination.

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.