Cold War Cinema
Trust no one.
Our Day
Named to the National Film Registry in 2007, "Our Day" is a day-in-the-life portrait of the Kelly family of Lebanon, Kentucky. Wallace Kelly's amateur cast was made up of his mother, wife, brother,...
2h 49m
DOUBLE FEATURE HELL 11 (Red-Scare Follies)
The 2am Theater takes us back to those wonderful days of yesteryear when folks were digging bomb shelters in their back yards, "duck & cover" was all the rage and Joe McCarthy and friends were scre...
A Day Called "X"
The complete CBS nuclear disaster preparation special.
2m
News Parade of 1945
0557 PA8076 News Parade of 1945 35mm nitrate
56m
A Point in Time
Highly informative hour-long documentary about the Corona Project, which gave us America's first photo-reconnaissance (spy) satellites. Produced by the CIA in 1972, it premiered publicly at the "Pi...
9m
What Is Business?
Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table, and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes.
Pickup On South Street (1953) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters - Film Noir
Pickup on South Street is a 1953 Cold War spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter. In 2018, Pickup on South Street was se...
3h 36m
Shocker Internet Drive In Week 8 - Terror Triple Feature
Welcome back to everyone's favorite drive-in where the hot dogs are hot, the popcorn popped, and the movies are usually bad. Regrettably, I am sad to say we do not have a cartoon this week ... but ...
13m
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good (Part I)
Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the peaceful aspects of atomic energy.
The Two Headed Spy 1958 colorized (Jack Hawkins)
A British agent planted long ago in the German Army continues passing information to the Allies during World War II, gaining the confidence of everyone in the Nazi high command except one suspiciou...
1h 30m
The Adventures of Tartu
The versatile Robert Donat is Captain Terrence Stevenson a.k.a. Jan Tartu, a British spy well versed in Russian and Rumanian that is assigned to aid Czech partisans in destroying a poison gas facto...
"Playhouse 90" Forbidden Area
Title: "Playhouse 90" Forbidden Area Summary: Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will any...
"The Silent Command" (1923) featuring Martha Mansfield, Bela Lugosi
This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame. Please visit https://silent-hall-of-fame.org/ to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie stars by making a tax deductibl...
20m
China Under Communism
Foreign correspondent John Stroehm conducts a tour through the People's Republic of China.
13m
Look at Capitalism, A
Economic lecture on the merits and workings of capitalism. With Prof. Clifton L. Ganus of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.
Warning Red
Nuclear preparation and survival film.
0m
Federal Fugitives
WWII has just started, and Federal Agent Madison spots a man in Washington D.C. that might be a wanted saboteur.
12m
Freedom and Power (Part II)
This opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation.
ROCKET ATTACK USA
“It’s the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World leaders in a panic. Fears about the nature ...
25m
Town of the Times
Ralph Meeker stars in this docudrama which attempts to convice small towns accross middle America to prepare for nuclear holocaust.
1h 23m
Tokyo File 212
From IMDb; A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. sec...
Dishonored
In Josef von Sternberg’s atmospheric spin on the espionage thriller, Marlene Dietrich further develops her shrewd star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwalker who is recruited to spy f...
Joey Breaker (1993) - Richard Edson Film
Steven Starr was an agent at William Morris Agency, heading the New York Motion Picture department under legendary talent agent Sue Mengers. His clients over the years included Larry David, Sandra ...
4m
The Day Called 'X' Scored
This was our final project at Western Oregon University's Film Scoring class. The movie is called "The Day Called 'X' A (Part I)" which was found at the Prelinger Archives. I edited the movie to sh...
The October Man (1947, UK) John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Carey - Film Noir Full Movie
The October Man is a 1947 British film noir starring John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Carey, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh , written and produced by novelist Eric Ambler. The film was made at Denham S...
Yellow Canary
“Intriguing conspiracies” “Enjoyable spy thriller” “Watchable long after the end of the war” “Anna Neagle’s finest role” (IMDB reviews quotes). A wartime transatlantic suspense dr...
25m
Operation HARDTACK High Altitude Tests
Operation HARDTACK I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocket...
1h 0m
Eight Witnesses.
A cold war suspense drama costarring Dennis Price and Peggy Ann Garner. This is a TV movie filmed in West Germany by a German production company, and with a mostly German supporting cast. The openi...
3m
Aural Explosion
This is an original music video. The footage is from two videos downloaded from the Prelinger Archive, specifically http://www.archive.org/details/stripper_dance_of_the_doves and http://www.archive...
Modern History: Cold War in Soviet 4 - Soviet in Space
This is part 4 in a series of four with glimpses from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. These glimpses are extracts from a film in the Prelinger Archives about Leonid Brezhnev (1906-82), who wa...