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1) Waiting time
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A suspenseful tale of espionage and death unfolds in this post Cold War drama. Tracy Barnes and Joshua Mantle find themselves involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the infamous East German State Secret Police, The Stasi."
3) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
4) Jack Strong
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on true events during the Cold War, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski risks his and his family's lives as an informant for the CIA when he learns that Poland could become the site of a nuclear counterattack against the Soviet Union.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Nerve-racking suspense surrounds The Bedford incident, the tale of a U.S. naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine"--Container.
6) Fail-safe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
7) Double take
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 79 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary/fiction hybrid that combines archival footage with cryptic allusions to an imaginary murder plot involving Alfred Hitchcock and his double to create a portrait of American media run amok during the Cold War.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As global Cold War tensions mount and organized crime escalates in the U.S., a young, ambitious man from a wealthy family rises to become the leader of the free world. At the same time, a former dedicated Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of U.S. history will forever change.
9) Balloon
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1979 East Germany, two families hatch a plan to escape to the West in a homemade hot air balloon.
10) Torn curtain
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 8 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
11) Atomic blonde
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
12) Cold War
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Set in the 1950s, an older pianist with plans to defect falls in love with a talented young singer while he is on a state-sponsored trip to gather folk songs in the Polish countryside.
13) Spacewalker
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of the Cold War as the USSR and the United States compete for supremacy in outer space, Russian astronauts Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyaev prepare for the first ever spacewalk.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001, c1964
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When U.S. and Soviet manned spaceships are hijacked in Earth's orbit, Agent 007 must race to prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers. His dangerous mission takes him to Japan, where he battles the evil SPECTRE organization and its diabolical leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld"--Container.
17) Torn curtain
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Famous scientist Michael Armstrong goes to an international congress of physics in Copenhagen with his fiancee who mistakenly picks up a message meant for Michael, and discovers that he is defecting to East Berlin.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 605 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The stakes have never been higher for KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings than in this pulse pounding fourth season. Still grieving the death of her mother, Elizabeth berates Paige for telling her pastor about her parents' covert profession. A deadly bioweapon threatens Gabriel's life, and the couple shatters the lives of loved ones when Martha is told Clark's true identity and Elizabeth betrays her friend Young-Hee.
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