Cold War Cinema

Reign of the Fallen

In the times since great wars laid waste to the planet Prias, its people have learned to embrace a simple life, away from the perils of technology and war. As the mighty Sith army spreads across th...

The Chase

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends...

Creature from the Haunted Sea

When a Carribean Island is engulfed by a revolution, one unscrupulous American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get-rich-quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge for the...

Flight to Nowhere

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Gung Ho!

Though loaded with clichés such as rousing pre-battle speeches and over-dramatized death scenes, Gung Ho tells a more-or-less true story about the successful deployment of the Makin Raiders (Carls...

Underwater Atomic Bomb Test At Bikini Atoll

British Intelligence

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also...

Operation IVY

"The island of Elugelab is missing!" President Eisenhower heard this short report on the Mike shot in Operation IVY from Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mike was the first fu...

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

1939, sound, 55 min, Technicolor, 35mm. Transferred from a 35mm nitrate print. See: Andrew Wood, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair," http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/middleton/ind...

This Is Not a Test

Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he and the others learn the reason...

They Raid By Night

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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia Part I

"The Battle of Russia," Chapter V of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. Part One shows how the Nazi regime, frustrated by the tenacity of Briti...

Why We Fight: The Nazi Strike

"The Nazis Strike," Chapter II of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, summarizes Adolph Hitler's plan for world conquest and Germany's full scale preparation in pursuit of this end. While the Nazi...

It's Everybody's Business

Corporate Cold War-era cartoon linking Bill of Rights to free-enterprise ideology.

Under The Red Robe

http://imdb.com/title/tt0029712/ Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the ...

Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildl...

The Scarlet Clue

Government agent Charlie Chan is investigating a spy ring intent on stealing radar plans, which leads him to a radio station in a building also containing a radar research facility. Stars: Sidney T...

King of the Zombies

A plane flying to the Bahamas gets blown off course and crashes on the island of the mysterious Dr. Sangare. Jefferson Jackson (Mantan Moreland) tries to warn his fellow survivors that the island's...

Battle Beyond The Sun

The space race is on between two countries. Who's going to land on mars first? Look for the scene with two goofy looking monsters battling on an asteroid.

The Proud And The Damned-1972

A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen (Chuck Connors) must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. T...

Waterfront

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Hiroshima Bombing and Crossroads Nuclear Weapons Test

Aftermath of Hiroshima atomic bombing; Crossroads nuclear test off Bikini Island.

Signal 30 (Part I)

Legendary "shock" driving safety film featuring numerous scenes of mutilated cars and injured/dead people and a voiceover lacking in compassion. Produced in cooperation with the Ohio State Highway ...

Terrible Truth, The

Early (and sensational) film on marijuana use as a route to heroin addiction.

Operation TEAPOT Military Effects Studies

Operation TEAPOT consisted of 14 nuclear tests detonated from February 18 to May 15, 1955. The goal of the series was to test nuclear devices for possible inclusion in the nuclear weapons stockpile...

Let's Get Tough

The East Side Kids take on Japanese and German saboteurs.

Shock

This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW (Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiti...

State Department: File 649

U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.

Mr. Wong, Detective

From IMDb: When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring hoping to st...

Texas to Bataan

The Range Busters hunt down 5th columnist while transporting horses to the Philippines.