Movies: Cold war

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the Soviet Union continued with the Western countries, and especially the US, so that their high priority was to tame down, establish relations and negoti...

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

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are supposed to become a symbol for a peaceful world. Especially the divided Germany is expected to prove thi...

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship in the country. It conducts a critical examination of the historical inequality in Chile, perpetuated ...

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

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In 1982, one year after the Soviet submarine U-137 had been found beached in Swedish waters, the Swedish government claimed to have captured another submarine in its waters. As time went on and no submarine turned up the shouts for proof grew louder ...

August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion with old friends - but their world is about to change....

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In the Americanbom, educational films, newsreel footage and old television shows are appropriated for a sardonic exploration of nuclear age values. (LUX)...

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside Umeå, northern Sweden. A deeply-believing priest, well-liked and respected by everyone or a ruthless spy who ...

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The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture. The documentary examines the processes and me...

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Presents the fears and anxieties of children regarding nuclear war. Through their reflections, it captures the overwhelming dread of potential destruction, the emotional turmoil of living with the threat of nuclear weapons, and the desire for peace. ...

A homemaker's battle with eight legged karma....

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

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Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government in 1970, the class struggle would reach a decisive point for the country in 1973....