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1) Top secret
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In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley's job is to help frustrate them, harass them,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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A top-ranking executive stationed in Berlin is charged with the care of his boss' visiting daughter. When he learns that she has married a young communist and that his boss will be arriving in town in 24 hours he must transform the unwilling beatnik into a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for advancement.
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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.
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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.
Pub. Date
2017
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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.
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Joe Wilderness novels volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
8) Cold War
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
295 pages
Description
"In the aftermath of the Cold War, American intelligence caught three high-profiles Russian spies: Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, and Edward Lee Howard. However, rumors have long swirled of another mole, one perhaps more damaging than all the others combined. Perhaps the greatest traitor in American history, perhaps a Russian ruse to tear the CIA apart, or perhaps nothing more than a bogeyman, he is often referred to as the Fourth Man. For the first...
13) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.
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George Smiley novels volume 9
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
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"Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved forEast German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist...
18) 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.
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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