Cold War Propaganda Movies

  • 2020
    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

    72020HD

    How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north...

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
  • 2019
    I Invite You to My Execution

    I Invite You to My Execution

    I Invite You to My Execution

    72019HD

    As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

    I Invite You to My Execution
  • 2019
    Rich Hall's Red Menace

    Rich Hall's Red Menace

    Rich Hall's Red Menace

    02019HD

    2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the...

    Rich Hall's Red Menace
  • 2009
    Disco and Atomic War

    Disco and Atomic War

    Disco and Atomic War

    5.62009HD

    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...

    Disco and Atomic War
  • 1960
    The Dam on the Yellow River

    The Dam on the Yellow River

    The Dam on the Yellow River

    01960HD

    Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist...

    The Dam on the Yellow River
  • 1954
    The Shanghai Story

    The Shanghai Story

    The Shanghai Story

    4.81954HD

    Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the...

    The Shanghai Story
  • 2019
    Sword-and-Sandal

    Sword-and-Sandal

    Sword-and-Sandal

    72019HD

    The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in...

    Sword-and-Sandal
  • 1953
    Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas

    Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas

    Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas

    11953HD

    A propaganda short commissioned by the United Fruit Company on the benefits they bring to Central America, such as creating jobs and delivering...

    Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas
  • 2019
    Battlefield Gender

    Battlefield Gender

    Battlefield Gender

    72019HD

    Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

    Battlefield Gender
  • 2021
    A Very Animated War

    A Very Animated War

    A Very Animated War

    6.72021HD

    From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. ...

    A Very Animated War
  • 1953
    A Is for Atom

    A Is for Atom

    A Is for Atom

    7.11953HD

    General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy, detailing some of its uses besides the bomb. Using animation and an off-screen narrator,...

    A Is for Atom
  • 2020
    My Favorite War

    My Favorite War

    My Favorite War

    6.72020HD

    Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

    My Favorite War
  • 1957
    The Day Called X

    The Day Called X

    The Day Called X

    01957HD

    Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its state-of-the-art civil defense system.

    The Day Called X
  • 1965
    Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam

    Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam

    Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam

    01965HD

    Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam
  • 1960
    Taiwan: The Face of Free China

    Taiwan: The Face of Free China

    Taiwan: The Face of Free China

    01960HD

    A documentary produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that covers the history, land reform, industry, religion, educational...

    Taiwan: The Face of Free China
  • 1981
    Sonntag der 13.

    Sonntag der 13.

    Sonntag der 13.

    01981HD

    Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

    Sonntag der 13.
  • 1970
    Cry of the China Seas

    Cry of the China Seas

    Cry of the China Seas

    01970HD

    Produced by the Episcopalian production company Cathedral Films, "Cry of the China Seas" is a Cold War propaganda film that describes the spread of...

    Cry of the China Seas