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 ...

“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War,” Reagan famously said. “We win. They lose.” It happened just as he stated after his two terms. And Eighties Hollywood reflected the America First ...

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 ...

Left-leaning Hollywood scriptwriters were permanently ... on nationally televised hearings, but the Cold War continued. The mood of fear and suspicion would linger across the nation for years ...

Fears of an all-out nuclear exchange haunted the early postwar years and notoriously intensified during the Cold War. Hollywood captured the angst and anxiety in, for example, “On the Beach,” ...

This month in Foreign Affairs, the conservative historian Niall Ferguson suggested America’s second Cold War was already at least five years old. Even Hollywood has long been kowtowing to China ...