# Cold War Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321 "2004-03-03T15:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/1 "2004-03-03T15:55:20Z")
Name some movies that you would think of if someone asked you to name “cold war movies” - These are the ones I came up with - Dr. Strangelove Manchurian Candidate Fail Safe One Two Three The Russians are Coming Matinee and a friend added Iron Giant. What are we forgetting? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/2 "2004-03-03T15:59:13Z")
Many science fiction movies from the Fifties, like _Them_ and _Invasion of the Body Snatchers,_ were really metaphorically about the Cold War and the Red Scare as well. I don’t know if you want to include them or restrict this thread to the more literal ones. Also, would you count _Red Dawn?_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/3 "2004-03-03T16:11:46Z")
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Ice Station Zebra ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/4 "2004-03-03T16:14:34Z")
Strategic Air Command The Bedford Incident War Games ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/5 "2004-03-03T16:50:47Z")
The Ipcress File (Len Deighton’s low key classic) The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (The other great Brit spy novelist has a go) Z (Honestly it’s about world politics although ot seems localised) Three Days of the Condor (It’s Cold War and I really, really like it) The Man Inside (convoluted political thriller, I think I enjoyed it) Night Crossing (Good performances in a movie about people escaping from East Berlin) One Two Three (Pepsi plus communists from Godlike Billly Wilder, pretty damn funny) I Am Cuba (Rarely seen documentary that makes you think that maybe Fidel isn’t as bad as you thought. Portrait of a country begging for a revolution) Radio Bikini (this will scare the shit out evryone who hasn’t seen it) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent (more about the Kennedy assasination but worth a look) Don’t Drink The Water (Low key. I think the Jackie Gleason original was better but you can’t get it so I’m trusting my memory) The Fourth War (Ordinary and cliched but Cold War none the less) ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/6 "2004-03-03T16:57:54Z")
I was a Communist for the FBI My Son John ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/7 "2004-03-03T17:05:09Z")
In addition to the blatent **From Russia With Love** , many of the James Bond pictures were based on the premise that a third party could rise to power if they could get the US and USSR to go at each other since they were already poised at the brink… **You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever** , etc. ---
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_Hunt for Red October_ ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/9 "2004-03-03T17:09:00Z")
White Nights Letter to Brezhnev Spies like Us I think Red Dawn definitely counts. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/10 "2004-03-03T17:22:16Z")
13 Days ---
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No Way Out. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/12 "2004-03-03T17:41:06Z")
North By Northwest Red Heat Rambo Iron Eagle The Package The Day The Earth Stood Still ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/13 "2004-03-03T18:45:40Z")
_On The Beach._ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/14 "2004-03-03T18:56:14Z")
Little Nikita Top Gun Telefon ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/15 "2004-03-03T19:42:23Z")
Seven Days in May Red Dawn Company Business The Fourth Protocol ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/16 "2004-03-03T19:51:05Z")
The Falcon and the Snowman Firefox The Osterman Weekend ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/17 "2004-03-03T20:20:28Z")
**Atomic Cafe** of course. ---
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One of the earliest ones was “The Red Danube” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/19 "2004-03-04T04:07:06Z")
An MST3K favorite: _Rocket Attack, USA_ ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321/20 "2004-03-04T07:19:42Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > The Day The Earth Stood Still If SF movies are allowed, then two major ones : Invasion of the Body Snatchers and, The Thing from Another World [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-movies/232321.md?page=2)