Cold War movies have been a staple in Hollywood since the war first began. In the dying days of World War II, Hollywood's ...

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of her father John Milius's Cold War thriller "Red Dawn," Amanda Milius said Hollywood resented the movie's patriotic tone.

Lewis Milestone’s World War II epic “The North Star,” which has circulated in shabby copies and transfers (see embedded clips) since it slipped into the public domain in 1971, is … ...

NEW YORK — Fear of unexpected strikes from overseas. Battles over First Amendment rights. Simmering tensions tied to inequality. It’s no wonder the 1950s are all over movie screens. Whether by ...

When I learned that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was planning an exhibition chronicling the so-called Red Scare in Hollywood during the 1940s and '50s, I hoped it would be the ...

In the 1960s, Hollywood was grappling with how to address the ongoing Cold War embroiling the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Two years after Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove sent up the tension by ...

How will the promise of a second Cold War impact the portrayal of Russia in movies and television? To see a glimpse of what could be in the future it’s worth looking to the past.

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

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.

Hollywood has mostly gone discreetly along with that since China began opening to the western movie business in a big way in the 1990s (for a look at some of the films that have been censored, see ...