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For All Mankind
2019 • War & Politics • Drama • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engine…
Matched on: war
The Americans
2013 • Drama • Crime
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the sub…
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Project Blue Book
2019 • Drama • Mystery • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Deadly Class
2019 • Drama • Crime • Action & Adventure
Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Right Stuff
2020 • Drama
At the height of the Cold War, newly formed NASA selects seven of the military’s best test pilots to become astronauts. Competing to be the first in space, these men achieve the…
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The Company
2007 • Drama • Action & Adventure
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battl…
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Partners in Crime
2015 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war cons…
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The Game
2014 • War & Politics • Drama • Crime
"The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the thr…
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The Hour
2011 • War & Politics • Drama • Crime
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 • War & Politics • Drama • Mystery
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Al…
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A Spy Among Friends
2022 • War & Politics • Drama
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend…
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
2012 • War & Politics • Documentary
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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The Assets
2014 • War & Politics • Drama
1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notori…
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The Ipcress File
2022 • War & Politics • Drama • Action & Adventure
As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must use his links to find a miss…
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In From the Cold
2022 • Drama • Action & Adventure
Exposed as an ex-Russian spy, an American single mom must juggle family life and unique shape-shifting skills in a battle against an insidious enemy.
Why matched: genres Drama, Action & Adventure
Summer of Rockets
2019 • Drama
Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribut…
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The Queen's Gambit
2020 • Drama
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
Why matched: genres Drama
PONIES
2026 • Drama • Crime
In 1977 Moscow, two "PONIES" ("persons of no interest") become CIA operatives and uncover a Cold War conspiracy their husbands were killed for.
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Wormwood
2017 • Drama • Crime • Documentary
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
Matched on: war
The Sixties
2014 • Documentary
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goet…
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