Showing 1 - 10 of 17 titles with a criteria of Subject is The 1950s and the Cold War

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

Disco and Atomic War

The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 80 minutes

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes

For Earth's Sake

Portrait of David Brower, America's leading environmentalist.

Bullfrog Films | 1989 | 58 minutes

I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb

Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 55 minutes