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

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

1964 91.5K views Internet Archive

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...

Horrors of Spider Island 1h 14m

Horrors of Spider Island

1962 1h 14m 86.0K views Internet Archive

A plane crash leaves a dance troupe stranded on a deserted island where a mutant spider bite turns the troupe's leader into a monster. This movie was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 ep. 10...

Submarine Alert

Submarine Alert

1943 83.6K views Internet Archive

From IMDB : Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top r...

Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1h 9m

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1928 1h 9m 83.4K views Internet Archive

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is the story of a naive, college-educated dandy who must prove himself to his working-class father, a hot-headed riverboat captain, while courting the daughter of his father's r...

Song of the Gringo

Song of the Gringo

1936 82.5K views Internet Archive

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

Zontar the Thing From Venus 1h 20m

Zontar the Thing From Venus

1966 1h 20m 81.9K views Internet Archive

An alien tries to take over the Earth by cutting off all power and seizing the minds of various scientists and military leaders. This is a remake of the 1956 Roger Corman film It Conquered the Worl...

The 280 mm Gun at the Nevada Proving Ground 10m

The 280 mm Gun at the Nevada Proving Ground

1953 10m 79.5K views Internet Archive

The testing of the Mark 9 atomic artillery shell was the Grable event, part of a much larger series of nuclear detonations under the umbrella of Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE in 1953. This operation co...

The Dawn Express 1h 2m

The Dawn Express

1942 1h 2m 79.1K views Internet Archive

(AKA "Nazi Spy Ring") Lured into a trap by a Mata Hari... the lives of his loved ones was the price demanded for his honor! Description from the IMDb : A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula t...

Captain Scarface

Captain Scarface

1953 76.3K views Internet Archive

From IMDB : A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.

Death Mills [Todesmuehlen] 21m

Death Mills [Todesmuehlen]

1945 21m 76.3K views Internet Archive

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination ...

Destination Earth

Destination Earth

1956 76.2K views Prelinger Archives

This animated cartoon follows the adventures of "Colonel Cosmic," a Martian, as he learns that Oil and Competition are the two things that make America great. It is a sci-fi-influenced economic tra...

Hawaii Calls 1h 2m

Hawaii Calls

1938 1h 2m 74.0K views Internet Archive

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

Flying Wild 1m

Flying Wild

1941 1m 74.0K views Internet Archive

Da East Side Kids get jobs at a airplane factory, and discover that one of the employees is a spy.

My Favorite Brunette 1h 27m

My Favorite Brunette

1947 1h 27m 71.8K views Internet Archive

This was one of the three films that Bob Hope did for Paramount with the theme of favorites: blonde, spy and brunette. He was at one of the best moments of his career when this spoof about the dete...

Brink of Disaster (Part I) 27m

Brink of Disaster (Part I)

1972 27m 70.0K views Prelinger Archives

How 1960s activism "threatens" American moral, religious and ethical principles.

Q Planes 1h 18m

Q Planes

1939 1h 18m 69.3K views Internet Archive

A secret British aviation project is being disrupted by a foreign power, until an effete but supremely confident military-intelligence agent, Charles Hammond (Ralph Richardson), is assigned the cas...

Big Trouble In Little China

Big Trouble In Little China

1986 65.9K views Internet Archive

    Big Trouble in Little China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Big Trouble in Little China Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan Directed by John Car...

Target Nevada 15m

Target Nevada

15m 65.6K views Internet Archive

As shown in the titles, this film is about "the story of United States Air Force support to the Atomic Energy Commission on continental atomic tests". Narrated by Carey Wilson, it uses footage show...

Chasing Trouble 59m

Chasing Trouble

1940 59m 63.8K views Internet Archive

Taken from IMDB : A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

Red Chinese Battle Plan 25m

Red Chinese Battle Plan

1964 25m 62.5K views Prelinger Archives

Cold War-era anti-Chinese propaganda film featuring footage of revolutionary activities and combat, 1921-64.

The Adventures of Tartu

The Adventures of Tartu

1943 60.9K views Internet Archive

AKA "Sabotage Agent" A beautiful girl! A dangerous mission! A Brit (Robert Donat) who happens to be fluent in both Rumanian and German -- and a top-notch chemist into the bargain -- is sent behind ...

Freedom Highway (Part I) 21m

Freedom Highway (Part I)

1956 21m 60.4K views Prelinger Archives

A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Directed by Harold Schuster. Director of Photography: Jerry Fairbanks. Screenplay: Charles L. Tedford, Leo S. Rosencrans. ...

Operation DOMINIC Nuclear Tests 1962 26m

Operation DOMINIC Nuclear Tests 1962

1962 26m 60.0K views Internet Archive

This Dominic I video provides a visual overview of 36 atmospheric nuclear devices detonated in the Pacific Proving Ground from April to November 1962. It was the last atmospheric nuclear test serie...

The Martyrs of the Alamo 1h 11m

The Martyrs of the Alamo

1915 1h 11m 59.7K views Internet Archive

First feature-length movie on the Alamo. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005719/

British Intelligence 1h 0m

British Intelligence

1940 1h 0m 58.5K views Internet Archive

In 1917 London, elusive German spy Frantz Strendler regularly accesses crucial British military information and relays it to the German government, with disastrous results for the British on the fr...

The Chinese Room 1h 40m

The Chinese Room

1h 40m 58.5K views Internet Archive

The Chinese Room is an award-winning 2009 independent feature. It was shot on location in Washington, DC with an all-local cast and crew. It is a self-financed thriller inspired by the famous thoug...

The Battle of San Pietro 43m

The Battle of San Pietro

1945 43m 55.7K views Internet Archive

Documentary of the US efforts to take Italy by acclaimed director John Huston. The US Army which commissioned the film refused to show it because it was too honest in its portrayal of the high cost...

British Hydrogen Bomb Explosion

British Hydrogen Bomb Explosion

1957 55.7K views Internet Archive

Earth vs the Flying Saucers 1956 colorized (Hugh Marlowe)

Earth vs the Flying Saucers 1956 colorized (Hugh Marlowe)

1956 55.6K views Internet Archive

A scientist (Hugh Marlowe) is contacted by alien invaders who want the leaders of Earth to surrender, but he develops a weapon to de-stabilize their flying saucers. Colorized under the supervision ...

Challenge of Ideas, The (Part I) 25m

Challenge of Ideas, The (Part I)

1961 25m 55.5K views Prelinger Archives

John Wayne, Edward R. Murrow and others discuss the ideological battle between U.S. and Soviet Union.