Movies and mini-series about the Cold War
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- CreatorAnna WingerJörg WingerStarsJonas NayMaria SchraderUlrich NoethenMartin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.Rating: 8/10
- CreatorAnna WingerJörg WingerStarsJonas NayMaria SchraderFlorence KasumbaAbandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long banished to Africa for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch is now sent back into the field.Rating: 8/10
- CreatorAnna WingerJörg WingerStarsJonas NayMaria SchraderSylvester GrothMartin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.Rating: 9/10
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsFriedrich MückeKaroline SchuchDavid KrossEast Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.Rating: 8/10
- DirectorUli EdelStarsMartina GedeckMoritz BleibtreuJohanna WokalekA look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.Rating: 8/10
- CreatorHanno HackfortBob KonradRichard KropfStarsJella HaaseDimitrij SchaadVincent RedetzkiAfter the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.Rating: 7/10
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.Rating: 9/10
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.Rating: 8/10
- CreatorChris SilberJörg WingerTyron RickettsStarsMalick BauerArianna RatnerSvenja JungBased on the true story of Sam Meffire's rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam's desperate search for a place he can call home, as he fights for recognition and justice in the wild years following German reunification.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsAugust DiehlFabian BuschDieter LandurisWhen the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
- StarsSam BoothTheo WaigelRainer HofmeyerIn April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. This documentary details the strange evidence recovered.
- DirectorJan Josef LiefersStarsEdgar SelgeBarbara SchnitzlerHans-Uwe BauerA pastor in Lobetal (a town formed to take care of the homeless and disabled) takes in the rejected, former head of East Germany and his wife after the wall falls. Opposed by most, even his church. He nevertheless forgives his enemy.
- StarsShockingRotomAnna Maria MüheBen MünchowAfter German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them.
- DirectorBarnabás TóthStarsKároly HajdukPál MácsaiGergely VáradiA young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan AldaDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
- DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsAlex CalangiuCatalin HerloIonut CarasDuring Romania's 1989 revolution, Sibiu witnesses a violent attack on a police station that spirals into armed clashes between soldiers, police, protesters and secret police.