During the Cold War, Hollywood correctly saw the Soviet Union as the world’s true bad guy, led by the KGB. In dozens of movies from the 1960s through the 1990s, the KGB was a nefarious force ...

As a scholar of the Cold War era, Carole Stabile found herself asking how this came to be. Her intriguing conclusion: The uninspired uniformity can be traced to the infamous Hollywood blacklist. As ...

Joe Berlinger will helm a new retelling of the 1964 war-thriller Fail-Safe which was adapted from its eponymous novel. The latest version will blend a modern approach with documentary-style ...

of the Cold War film wave, which didn’t really abate before Sylvester Stallone was single-handedly defending the free world in “Rocky IV” and a Hollywood actor playing the role of the ...

In the post-Cold War era, Hollywood dropped the KGB and has groped ever since for discernible baddies. Movies set in the past — think Indiana Jones — can, of course, always keep using Nazis.