Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "u.s.-soviet-relations"

1. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 215,230 | Gross: $122.01M

2. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 328,266 | Gross: $72.31M

3. Rocky IV (1985)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Sport

Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.

Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 226,866 | Gross: $127.87M

4. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,814 | Gross: $34.59M

5. Seven Days in May (1964)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner

Votes: 17,396 | Gross: $7.96M

6. Cold War (1998)

47 min | Documentary, History

A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev

Votes: 1,039

7. Countdown to Looking Glass (1984 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver, Patrick Watson

Votes: 719

8. Murder in Space (1985 TV Movie)

95 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Michael Ironside, Martin Balsam, Damir Andrei

Votes: 259

9. George Kennan: A Critical Voice (1982 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

Drawing on a political career that began in the years leading up to WWII and spanned four decades after, the esteemed George Kennan speaks with earnest articulation about the mounting ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Blackwood | Star: George Kennan

10. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball (1992)

Documentary, History

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Stars: Aleksei Adzhubei, Anatoli Dobrynin, Anatoli Gribkov, Roger Hillsman

11. InterNYET: A History of the Russian Internet (2019)
Episode: The Beginning: A California Hippie And The Crazy 1990s (2019)

37 min | Documentary, History

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Director: Andrey Loshak | Stars: Andrey Loshak, Joel Schatz, Dmitriy Klyosov, A. Konstantinov

Votes: 14

12. First Ladies (2020)
Episode: Nancy Reagan (2020)

Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary, Biography

Nancy Reagan is popularly known as the doting wife of President Ronald Reagan, but in reality, she had much more than a supporting role in the first 'Hollywood' presidency. From Ronald ... See full summary »

Director: Liz Mermin | Stars: Robin Wright, Ken Duberstein, Karen Tumulty, Bob Colacello

Votes: 58

13. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: The Torch Has Passed (January 1961 - December 1961) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

The youngest President ever elected, Kennedy faces the height of the Cold War and a national civil rights crisis.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, John F. Kennedy, Conan O'Brien, Chris Matthews

Votes: 29

14. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: Crisis (January 1962 - October 1962) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

After Nuclear weapons are placed 90 miles from the Florida coast in Cuba, Kennedy faces his ultimate trial, the most dangerous moment in human history.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, John F. Kennedy, Andrew Cohen, Richard Lipsey

Votes: 28

15. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 11 June 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Journalist Frank W. Taylor and Henry Hazlitt, a reporter for Newsweek magazine, interview Admiral H.P. Blandy, former Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet on US-Soviet relations, Soviet... See full summary »

Stars: W.H.P. Blandy, Henry Hazlitt, Frank W. Taylor

16. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 21 December 1953 (1953)

News, Talk-Show

Lasueur and Crawford interview Senator Mike Mansfield, a Democrat representing Montana. Topics include preliminary discussions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on peaceful uses for ... See full summary »

Stars: Kenneth Crawford, Larry LeSueur

17. Air Crash Investigation (2003– )
Episode: Target Is Destroyed (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Crime, History

In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 accidentally enters the Soviet airspace on a flight from the United States to South Korea. The Soviet interceptors shoot down the passenger jet.

Director: George D'Amato | Stars: Jonathan Aris, Denis Akiyama, Cecil Law, Jordan Andonov

Votes: 137

18. Battle Plan Under Fire (2004– )
Episode: Counterstrike (2004)

Documentary, History, War

Counterstrike can take many forms and history is full of examples where a numerically inferior army has turned the tide of battle by a brilliant execution of a Counterstrike.

Director: Gordon Stevens | Stars: Bruce Gudmundsson, Lloyd Clark, Eric Meyers, Leonid Brezhnev

19. Weird or What? (2010–2012)
Episode: Freaks of Nature (2011)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary

Weird or What looks at freakish weather and other strange natural phenomena. It goes to Bell Island in Newfoundland where a number of people experienced a series of earth shattering booms ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Scott, Sean Turrell | Stars: William Shatner, Darin Bickford, Jim Farrell, Brian Dunning

Votes: 17

20. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: Brothers in Arms (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

A confident, popular John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected American president, but he will have to rely on his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to help him navigate the disasters of 1961.

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Patrick J. Kennedy, Richard Mahoney

Votes: 56

21. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: Family Secrets (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

As personal scandal threatens his marriage and looming nuclear war undermines his administration, President John F. Kennedy must fight to protect the presidency, the country and the world.

Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Kate Andersen Brower, J. Randy Taraborrelli

Votes: 54

22. Tricky Dick (2019)
Episode: The Will to Win (2019)

Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, History

From modest beginnings in California, Richard Milhous Nixon rises to become a young star of the Republican Party -- first as a Congressman, then a Senator, then Vice President, and finally the nominee for President in 1960.

Director: Mary Robertson | Stars: Richard Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Helen Gahagan

Votes: 34