cold war propaganda movies

Sword-and-Sandal (2019)
6.6 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

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

Disco and Atomic War (2009)
5.6 / 10

Documentary

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...

Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice (2020)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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...

The Shanghai Story (1954)
4.8 / 10

Drama, Romance, Thriller

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...

I Invite You to My Execution (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

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

My Favorite War (2020)
6.7 / 10

Animation, Documentary, History

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...

The Dam on the Yellow River (1960)
0 / 10

Drama

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...

Battlefield Gender (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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...

The Day Called X (1957)
0 / 10

TV Movie, Documentary

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

Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas (1953)
1 / 10

Documentary

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

A Is for Atom (1953)
7.1 / 10

Animation, Documentary

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

Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam (1965)
0 / 10

Documentary

Sonntag der 13. (1981)
0 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

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

Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

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...

Taiwan: The Face of Free China (1960)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Cry of the China Seas (1969)
0 / 10

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