Cold War Film Collection

This collection contains 8 movies and is 2 hours of video.

Title Description
Duration
Challenge of Ideas, The 1961

Discussion of the ideological battle between the Soviet Union and the United States. With John Wayne, Edward R. Murrow, and others.

Sound, B&W

29:30
Communism 1952

This film is an educational look at communism, during the Cold War.

Sound, B&W

10:18

In Our Hands, Part 1: How We Got What We Have 1950

This film demonstrates that economic progress comes with private ownerhsip of tools for production, by showing a young couple with infant child, alone in a wilderness, surrounded by natural resources, and without the tools to utilize them.

Sound, B&W

20:28
In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have 1950

Second in a series this film documents the American free enterprise system and its strengths. focusing on how it meets the needs of the US citizen.

Sound, B&W

13:53
In Our Hands, Part 3: How To Lose What We Have 1950

The third film in the series, focuses on scaring the american people by showing the ease with which an authoritarian coup (most likely Communist) could happen quite easily with a little help from an apathetic public, uninterested in federal intervention in community affairs, and lack of the current economic incentives.

Sound, B&W

11:48
In Our Hands, Part 4: How to Keep What We Have 1950

The last in the series shows the benefits of the limited government and privately controlled labor, can hold back the rising tide of red communism, threating to take over the U.S.

Sound, B&W

11:07
Make Mine Freedom 1948

Cartoon from the Cold War era praising capitalism, and the American way, while warning of the dangers of communism.

Sound, Color

9:30
On Guard! The Story of SAGE ca. 1956

In this Cold War era film, we see computer technological innovations advanced as a weapon.

Sound, Color

12:15