A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945—covering many other atomic destinations and driving deep into the natural and social history of the American southwest.
45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each. Nearly 300 watchtowers., over 250 dog runs, twenty bunkers. Sixty-five miles of anti-vehicle trenches—signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails. Over 11,000 armed guards. A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints. 200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime. 96 miles of concrete wall. Families divided, loved ones lost…
In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the story of how its inhabitants gradually moved away from the great world stage and had to reinvent themselves as well as their home town.
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War, with documentary segments by Adam Curtis.
The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other, all in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Concert production of the musical staged during the finals of the 1989 chess World Cup tournament in in Skellefteå, Sweden and broadcast on Swedish television.
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Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.
A documentary about US-led covert actions under the Reagan administration intended to bolster the perception of Soviet aggression, undermine the peace initiatives of Sweden's PM Olof Palme, and to tie the non-aligned Sweden to NATO.
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
El documental cubre la historia de la final del Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez de 1978 entre el protegido del Partido Comunista, Anatoly Karpov, y el desertor soviético, Viktor Korchnoi.
The first Swedish language stage version of Chess, starring Helen Sjoholm as Florence Vaszi. Josefin Nilsson as Svetlana Sergievskaja, Tommy Korberg as Anatolij Sergievskij, Anders Ekborg as Freddie Trumper and Per Myrberg as Alexander Molokov. The cast sing new lyrics in Swedish ( written by Rudolfson, Jan Marks and Bjorn Ulvaeus) to tell a new version of the everchanging Chess story. A few new songs have been included (Chess continues to be a work in progress.) This version premiered in February 2002 at the Cirkus Theatre in Stockholm.
Convencido de que los comunistas están contaminando los Estados Unidos, un general ordena, en un acceso de locura, un ataque aéreo nuclear sorpresa contra la Unión Soviética. Su ayudante, el capitán Mandrake, trata de encontrar la fórmula para impedir el bombardeo. Por su parte, el presidente de los EE.UU. se pone en contacto con Moscú para convencer al gobierno soviético de que el ataque no es más que un estúpido error. Mientras tanto, el asesor estadounidense, un antiguo científico nazi, el doctor Strangelove, confirma la existencia de la "Máquina del Juicio Final", un dispositivo de represalia soviético capaz de acabar con la humanidad para siempre.
El capitán Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) es un oficial extremadamente competente de la Stasi, la todopoderosa policía secreta del régimen comunista de la antigua República Democrática Alemana. Pero, cuando en 1984 le encomiendan que espíe a la pareja formada por el prestigioso escritor Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) y la popular actriz Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedenk), no sabe hasta qué punto esa misión va a influir en su propia vida...
Deep in the frozen winters of Siberia, the world's greatest weapon is discovered -- a golden Sharpie which grants its country ultimate power. The only question: which country?
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century.
En 1957, en la pequeña localidad de Rockwell, alguien ha visto cómo un enorme hombre metálico caía al mar. Un imaginativo niño descubre que se trata de un robot gigante, cuyo apetito de metal es insaciable. Entre ambos nace una fuerte amistad, pero el gobierno envía a un agente para investigar los hechos. El niño esconde a su nuevo compañero en la chatarrería de un amigo. Pero los habitantes del pueblo comienzan a sentirse aterrados porque creen que es una nueva amenaza en plena Guerra Fría.