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1) Farewell
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Begins in 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. U.S.-Soviet elations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhney. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
3) Octopussy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special 007 edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A circus clown is murdered in the shadows of the Berlin Wall, a heavily guarded priceless Soviet art treasure turns up at a London auction, a tycoon arrives at conferences on a love barge, served by an army of scantily-clad lethal lovelies -- a mixture of mystery and action that only James Bond can unravel.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carson, a mercenary sea captain willing to do anything if the price is right, in this Cold War adventure. Tracy, the wealthy Frenchwoman able to pay Carson's price and induce him to undertake a daring rescue mission inside Communist Albania. But their troubles are just beginning when they cross the border, and the mission grows larger and more complicated when their group is taken captive by guerrillas, led by the rogue Trifon.
5) Fail safe
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
This 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.
6) Double take
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
7) Topaz
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling spy novel bursts onto the screen in this riveting story of adventure and international intrigue. An American CIA agent hires a French operative to travel to Cuba and intestigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, a NATO spy. The inquiry soon spins into a life-threatening escapade of espionage, betrayal and murder.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special 007 edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
9) Jet pilot
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American Air Force colonel is sent by the Pentagon to obtain top-secret information from a Russian pilot. The two eventually fall in love and, with their marriage as a perfect cover, the colonel is ordered to flee to Russia with his bride this time with him posing as a defector. When the political charade is discovered, however, the courageous couple must embark on a heart-pounding escape with enemy agents in hot pursuit.
11) Who?
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBi agent investigates an American scientist's disappearance after a fiery car crash in the Soviet Union. The scientist reappears at the Russian border as a robot, with only his right arm and megatron brain intact. But who is the creation? A scientist, or a cyborg killer? Death and destruction follow as the FBi agent and a Russian agent square off in a deadly game of cloak and dagger.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A successful player for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team attempts to balance domestic life, and service to God and country, after suddenly becoming active for the U.S Air Force and being promoted to commanding a bomber crew during the Cold War.
13) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
14) Atomic blonde
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 54 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
15) Atomic war bride
Publisher
Something Weird Video Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Atomic war bride is the cut, pan-and-scanned & dubbed version of the Yugoslavian film Rat (War); A young couple's wedding is interrupted by an air raid as their unnamed country goes to war, and they decide to go to the President and plead for peace as their leader announces an atomic strike against their enemy.
This is not a test had a limited release in 1961. An atomic war has started, cities are emptying under martial law and a local sheriff gets...
16) The hour: 2
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Rejoining The Hour a year on in 1957, the team are still striving to broadcast the stories they believe in, grappling with the disturbing threat of the Cold War and a country in the grip of unsettling, rapid change. Bel is still single and determined not to get involved with another married man, but finds herself taking on her adversary Bill Kendall, an ITV producer whose magnetic charm she can't help but find irresistible. Hector has risen to the...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early fifties, decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
18) Meteor
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction drama about a five-mile-wide meteor on a collision course with Earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.
Language
English
Formats
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.
20) Cold war
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
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