The Cold War was more of a threat than a real war. The Western capitalist world lived in tension with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries. Small conflicts, played the threat of nuclear weapons and espionage an important role. Beautiful subjects for films. What are the ten best films Cold War?
The Cold War was often symbolically treated in movies. Science fiction is one of the genres that here is very suitable for. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic from 1951. One day the Earth is rocked by visiting an alien. This Klaatu is assisted by a powerful robot and says he has a message for all the leaders of the world. Klaatu meanwhile learn a lot about Earth but do know a fellow scientist to find other civilizations warlike humanity and the planet nomination is to be destroyed.
The Hunt for Red October appeared in the last years of the Cold War. The film concludes a captain of a Soviet submarine to commit mutiny and walk over to the United States. The nuclear submarine can not be picked up by sonar and navigation directly on the ocean. In addition, he is chased by its own fleet which is afraid that the master on their own wants to start a war. CIA analyst Jack Ryan has that the submarine has a different purpose and should see his bosses to convince them that America is not attacked. Otherwise it can break the Third World War.
The Cold War caused some bouts of paranoia attacks. Because the country would not already have been infiltrated by secret agents? This feeling, therefore, often return to films. The friendly animated film The Iron Giant (1999) An unexpected cold war classic. In 1957, America in all states when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Off the coast collapsed a large robot at sea which ultimately comes to a nine-year-old boy. The boy and robot befriend but in the meantime the government is on the trail of the mysterious robot. Fearing they try to destroy it but the robot appears to be a full-fledged fighting machine.
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold was the book that the thriller writer John Le Carré made his breakthrough. In 1965 there was a film starring Richard Burton. The film is a real Cold War thriller about spies who try to be each other too smart. Burton plays a secret agent who is sent to East Germany to spread false information about a high-ranking East German spy. In addition, he used a girlfriend with communist sympathies.
The Third Man (1949) gives a good picture of the situation after World War II and the Cold War immediately is spreading. An American pulp writer travels to Vienna because his old friend Harry Lime has promised him a job. But when he arrives, Lime appears accidentally to have been killed. Lime or has it put in scene because he could smuggle so better penicillin in the city that is divided by the Allies?
During the Cold War they looked in the West mainly from outside to live in Eastern Europe. The Lives of Others (2006) offers a penetrating picture of the way in the GDR was watching the secret police Stasi citizens. An agent must be a playwright and his girlfriend eavesdropping but soon gets sympathy for the couple. He decides to falsify reports to his commanders.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a real Cold War film which also was released at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. Raymond, a young man from a conservative American family is brainwashed. He seems at first a military hero but not everyone trusts him. Slowly begins his captain (played by Frank Sinatra) to find out the truth: Raymond programmed by Communists to carry out a political assassination.
The teenager David (Matthew Broderick) lives for his computer. If he hacker breaking in everywhere. One day he thinks he has cracked a manufacturer of games. David is fascinated by the play Global Thermonuclear War. What he does not know he has penetrated the computer system of the Ministry of Defence and that the game is linked to real nuclear weapons. The program estimates that a nuclear war is imminent and begins to prepare for an attack. Can David with the help of his girlfriend World War III even stop?
In the fifties, the American Senator McCarthy started a witch hunt for communists America would have infiltrated everywhere. The science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a great critique of mass hysteria during the Cold War. A GP is getting more frequent visits from people who think that it is assumed the identity of their loved ones. With a friend, he discovers that are left in homes pods that grow into a perfect copy of the resident. Who is real and who is a doppelganger? And they have to stop?
Stanley Kubrick was a very original filmed. In 1964, when many serious films were released about the Cold War, he made a satire about the fear of a nuclear war. A paranoid General begins on its own initiative to attack the Soviet Union. The president must give the order to return the bombers, as the Soviet ambassador tells him to attack his country will retaliate automatically. But find the code for this order, is easier said than done. The result is a poignant film that lets see how absurd the Cold War.
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still
9. The Hunt for Red October
8. The Iron Giant
7. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
6. The Third Man
5. The Lives of Others
4. The Manchurian Candidate
3. War Games
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By: Mahmoud Alomda
