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Dr. No. Dir. Terence Young. 1962. Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell. In this first James Bond film, the secret service agent begins his career of tracking down rogue Cold War technologies by eliminating a mad scientist and his nuclear-powered island. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1964. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones. A high moment of Cold War film, Strangelove laughs at death to expose the paranoia, megalomania, and sexism that preoccupied its fictive Cold Warriors. Fail-Safe. Dir. Sidney Lumet. 1964. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlhy, Sorrell Booke, Larry Hagman, Frank Overton, Dom DeLuise. The serious response to Dr. Strangelove features a president and advisors torn over how to deal with an accidental nuclear assault upon Moscow. .The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan followed up his success with 1988's Die Hard by directing this taut adaptation of Tom Clancy's first Jack Ryan novel about a Soviet sub commander and a select group of officers who commandeer -- subtly -- the Red Navy's newest ballistic missile sub and attempts a westward underwater run to the East Coast of the United States. When the Soviet Navy gives chase, it's up to CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) to figure out what Captain First Rank Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) intends to do before a crisis starts and inadvertently sparks World War III Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dir. Don Siegel. 1956. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Virginia Christine. The alien threat here is a communistic group-mind that, while it looks American, utterly dehumanizes its victims by enslaving them to a common goal of world domination and mindless bureaucracy. Invasion, USA. Dir. Alfred E. Green. 1952. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy, Phyllis Coates, Robert Bice, Tom Kennedy, Noel Neill. One of many films to depict a full fledged enemy assault upon the United States and the kinds of individuals and social organizations needed to stop it. Kiss Me Deadly. Dir. Robert Aldrich. 1955. Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Cloris Leachman, Maxine Cooper, Gaby Rodgers, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Jack Lambert. Detective Mike Hammer unwittingly tracks down a cache of nuclear contraband while dealing with all parties that cross him. The Manchurian Candidate. Dir. John Frankenheimer. 1962. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory, John McGiver, Leslie Parrish, Khigh Deigh. A brainwashed Korean War veteran returns with his program to assassinate American politicians in this paranoid thriller about the power of ideas. The Missiles of October Starring William Devane as President John F. Kennedy, Howard Da Silva as General Secretary Nikita S. Khruschev, and Martin Sheen as Robert F. Kennedy, this is a more limited, almost play-like depiction of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It has no action scenes whatsoever, but the dialogue, particularly between JFK and Khruschev, is evocative of one of the Cold War's most perilous moments. 1974. My Son John. Dir. Leo McCarey. 1952. Helen Hayes, Robert Walker, Dean Jagger, Van Heflin, Frank McHugh, Richard Jaeckel. Subversion resides in even the most nuclear of Cold War families as an overly pampered son turns to communism and ruins his life. On the Beach. Dir. Stanley Kramer. 1959. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson, John Tate, Guy Doleman. Australia awaits its doom as the last remaining uncontaminated area of the world after a nuclear war; as society whimpers to extinction, we are witness to what held it together in the first place, and perhaps to what ultimately killed it. On the Waterfront. Dir. Elia Kazan. 1954. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eve Marie Saint, Leif Erickson, Tony Galento, John Hamilton, Nehemiah Persoff. An informer stands up to an organization of thugs, in this case a union, showing how it often takes principled individuals to withstand an unjust group mentality. Panic in the Year Zero. Dir. Ray Milland. 1962. Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, Joan Freeman, Richard Garland. One of many films that feature a nuclear family on the run from a nuclear assault, and the social organization of the nuclear family as the most fit means of survival. Red Dawn. Dir. John Milius. 1984. Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Powers Booth, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey. Invasion USA all over again as we find Cold War anxieties born anew for the 1980s, along with a new generation (of actors) enlisted in the fight against the communist threat. The Red Menace. Dir. R. G. Springsteen. 1949. Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbara Fuller. California communists employ any means necessary to further their cause, using sex to lure new members and ruthlessly brooking no dissent from the party line. This film is interesting both for its depiction of how a social 'menace' operates and of what is needed to resist it. Seven Days in May. Dir. John Frankenheimer. 1964. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready, Whit Bissell, Hugh Marlow. Disgruntled military leaders plan a coup to overthrown the government and wage the Cold War properly. The Steel Helmet. Dir. Samuel Fuller. 1951. Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo, Sid Melton. Soldiers in the Korean War try to come to terms with the identity of the enemy and the role of military force (and their place) in world affairs-and end up relying upon nationalist and racist beliefs to do so. Thirteen Days Although it was in and out of theaters in less than two weeks, Roger Donaldson's film about the Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the best "based on a true Cold War event" film. David Self's screenplay sticks very closely to the facts about those terrifying 13 days in October 1962, relying mostly on transcripts of actual recordings of JFK and the "Ex-Comm" of top advisors made by the President and on various written accounts. Some events are dramatized, of course, but the essence of the atmosphere in the White House and the Pentagon is captured quite nicely. 2000 Storm Center. Dir. Daniel Taradash. 1956. Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly. A librarian resists pressures to remove a work of communist literature from the shelves, highlighting the anti-intellectual side of Cold War red-baiting. Threads. Dir. Mick Jackson. 1984. Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Victoria O'Keefe. Britain's answer to the American television film, The Day After, Threads sets an ordinary family drama within the horrifying events that lead up to and follow a nuclear war. Recent scientific speculation about both the effects of radiation and nuclear winter are incorporated into its grisly depiction of three generations that struggle to survive after the war. Walk East on Beacon. Dir. Alfred L. Werker. 1952. George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, George Roy Hill. A vitalized FBI protects the American public from communist subversives by employing the latest in surveillance technology. War Games. Dir. John Badham. Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay. Fail-Safe all over again, except this time it is not a communications breakdown, but a fault in the very logic of the computer assigned to control the American nuclear arsenal that leads to the brink of destruction Red Menace A down-on-his-luck soldier (Rockwell) returns home from the war to find his life devastated by a bad real estate deal. He is lured by the Communist Party to help establish the more idyllic society he always envisioned but quickly realizes the error in his logic. McCarthyism was still in its initial stages at the time of this early Red Scare film, which features such heavy-handed devices as a cautionary introduction by Los Angeles City Councilman Lloyd G. Davies. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is based on spy master John Le Carre’s best selling novel. Richard Burton plays a burned out agent who’s asked to carry out one more impossible mission for queen and country. 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