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Showing 1 - 10 of 29 titles with a criteria of Subject is The 1950s and the Cold War


Alois Nebel

Lonely train dispatcher, Alois Nebel, has disturbing hallucinations of central Europe's past whenever a fog or snow descends on the station. At that point, he encounters a mute stranger, whose dark past intersects with Nebel's visions.

KimStim | 2012 | 80 minutes

Blurring the Color Line (53 min)

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 53 minutes

Blurring the Color Line (77 min)

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 77 minutes

Brothers On The Line

Narrated by Martin Sheen, Brothers On The Line is an award-winning documentary feature exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers — prolific union organizers who led an army of laborers into an epic struggle for social justice.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 81 minutes

Calavera Highway

A sweeping story of a family of seven men grappling with the meaning of masculinity, fatherhood, and a legacy of rootless beginnings.

GOOD DOCS | 2010 | 88 minutes

Chavez Ravine

Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 24 minutes

David Brower

An interview with America's foremost environmentalist.

Bullfrog Films | 1997 | 56 minutes

Deadly Mistakes?

Critically analyzes some US foreign policy interventions since World War II.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 160 minutes

The Devil is in the Detail

A feature-length cinema vérité portrait of Robert Carsen, one of the world's greatest stage directors at work, filmed over the course of a year.

Strange Attractions | 2021 | 114 minutes

Devils Don't Dream!

Analysis of the CIA-sponsored 1954 coup in Guatemala.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 90 minutes