List of Movies - Cold War

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  7.0
  Fatherland
  In 1949, Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann returns to Germany for the first time since the war, accompanied by his daughter Erika—an actress, writer, and rally driver. Behind the wheel of a black Buick, they embark on an emotionally ch...
       2026

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  Winter of the Crow
  Under the martial law gripping 1981 Warsaw, a British professor observes the secret police commit a student's murder. Now a marked individual, she is pursued through the city streets, ultimately compelled to cease her flight and m...
   2025

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  Whiskey on the Rocks
  TV miniseries (2024). 6 episodes. October 1981, in the middle of the Cold War, a time of maximum political tension where the threat of nuclear war constantly lurks. On a freezing night aboard the Soviet submarine U-137, the crew f...
   2024

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  Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (TV Series)
  The series chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin's ascent and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
   2024

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  8.5
  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
  Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumu
   2024

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  6.0
  Hammarskjöld
  Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a plane in a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire from his enemies after he leads UN troops into their first wartime operatio
   2023

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  The Pigeon Tunnel
  Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, and leading up to the present day, the documentary spans six decades and le Carré offers his last and most candid interview, peppered with rare archival footage and dramatized p...
   2023

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  6.0
  Totems (TV Series)
  Set in 1964 in the midst of the Cold War, a French secret agent heads into the field for the first time and falls for a woman working for the KGB.
   2022

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  Tetris
  The film will reportedly delve into the legal battles which took place during the Cold War over ownership of the game.
   2022

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  Charité (TV Miniseries)
  Berlin, summer 1961: the young doctor Dr. Ella Wendt comes from the provinces to the Charité in Berlin. The hospital is facing major problems these days, more and more doctors and nursing staff are moving to the West – there is...
   2021

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  7.6
  Firebird
  At the height of the Cold War, a love triangle between a junior officer, his best friend and a handsome fighter pilot enters dangerous territory.
   2021

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  6.0
  My Favorite War
  This is the personal story of the director, Ilze, growing up in Cold-War Latvia, USSR. It´s a coming of age story, a personal escape route from the mighty authoritarian regime's brainwashing. An antiwar film, emphasizing the impo...
   2020

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  6.9
  The Courier
  The true story of a British businessman unwittingly recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Forming an unlikely partnership with a Soviet officer hoping to prevent a nuclear confrontation, the two me...
   2020

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  The Queen's Gambit (TV Miniseries)
  TV Miniseries. 7 one-hour episodios. Kentucky in the 50s. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thin...
   2020

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  Che, Memories of a Secret Year
  December 1965, in the heyday of the Cold War. Ernesto Che Guevara disappears from the international public scene. Under a fake identity and with a transformed face, the Argentinian guerrilla commander fools the CIA and hides in Da...
   2019

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  5.8
  The Coldest Game
  Playing a major chess match in Warsaw against the Russian champion, brilliant but forgotten former US champion, and alcoholic, Josh Mansky is sucked into the world of espionage and conflict between the world's superpowers. As the ...
   2019

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  5.7
  Wasp Network
  The story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
   2019

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  La flor
  "La flor" is broken into six separate episodes, connected only by an on-screen appearance by Llinás explaining the film's structure. The first four episodes have the beginning of a story but finish in medias res. The fi...
   2018

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  La flor. Parte II
   2018

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  6.0
  The White Crow
  The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. Nureyev's escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet's most famous star, a wild and beautiful danc...
   2018

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