The Helsinki Effect

Space Hackers

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometo

2007

Ambassade

Ambassade questions the role of diplomatic relations and territorial representation. Through the prism of the American hostage crisis in Iran between

2019

The World's Biggest Bomb Revealed

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

2011

Naître Svetlana Staline

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves b

2023

The Phenomenon

This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking government officials, and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Re

2020

The Liberal War

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are crea

1974

Reagan: From Movie Star to President

Drawing from the recent book, Reagan: The Life by best-selling biographer H.W. Brands, this Ronald Reagan biography dives deep into the pivotal events

2016

Atomic Pilgrimage: Ghost Towns, Nuclear Relics, and Lost Civilizations on the Road to the Trinity Site

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 destinatio

2019

Third Eye Spies

Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the d

2019

Iran: The Hundred Year War

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

2009

The Real Spies Among Friends

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

2022

Der neue Kalte Krieg – Mehr Atomwaffen für Europa?

2019

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war an

2019

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatl

2009

Mission to Mir

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans

1997

The Atomic Cafe

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was no

1982

Secrets & Spies

A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.

2024

The Stasi: Secrets, Lies and British Spies

With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be re

2023

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard stri

2022

Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow

This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a

1956