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For All Mankind(2019-)

3.9/5 (with 295 votes)

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, engineers, and their families.

The Americans(2013-2018)

TV-MA
| 48min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 407 votes)

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 suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

Deutschland(2015-2020)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 80 votes)

A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War(1998)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.

Hollyoaks Later(2008-)

1h per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Hollyoaks Later is a spin-off from the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. Broadcast on E4 with a late night slot, the series began in 2008, and was an annual event for the soap until 2013, when there was a break, until it returned with a special episode in 2020. Each of the original series was shown over five consecutive nights. The late night airing allowed for more sexual content, "edgier" storylines, and stronger language. Each series is a stand-alone story, although each ties in with events on the main show at the time, with the producers often taking advantage of the later broadcast time to tie up loose ends on the more violent and controversial storylines.

Project Blue Book(2019-2020)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
4.1/5 (with 479 votes)

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”.

Deadly Class(2019)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 125 votes)

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 own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Behind Closed Doors(1958-1959)

30min per episode | War & Politics, Drama

Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.

Directed by John English - With Bruce Gordon

The Right Stuff(2020)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

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 extraordinary, inspiring the world to turn towards a new horizon of ambition and hope.

Cold War(1998-1999)

46min per episode | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

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.

The Game(2014)

TV-14
| 59min per episode | War & Politics, Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

"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 threats of the Cold War.

Line of Separation(2015-2018)

TV-14
| 1h 30min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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The Company(2007)

TV-14
| 1h 35min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

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 battle within the Company itself.

Directed by Mikael Salomon - With Chris O'Donnell

The Assets(2014)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

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 notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(1979)

TV-14
| 50min per episode | War & Politics, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Close to the Enemy(2016)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Shadow Lines(2019-2021)

45min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.

The Ipcress File(2022)

TV-14
| 47min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

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 missing British nuclear scientist.

Amerika(1987)

NR
| 1h 19min per episode | Drama
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Amerika is a miniseries about life in the United States, ten years after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.

Directed by Donald Wrye - With Kris Kristofferson

A Spy Among Friends(2022)

TV-MA
| 5h 34min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

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, Nicholas Elliott.

Biff Baker U.S.A.(1952-1954)

NR
| 30min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Biff Baker, U.S.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from November 6, 1952, to March 26, 1953 starring Alan Hale, Jr. as Cold War spy Biff Baker.

Partners in Crime(2015)

3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

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 conspiracy. Tuppence is a woman who sees adventure round every corner, throwing herself head first into every mystery with passion and fervour, determined to get to the truth no matter what it takes, much to the dismay of her more cautious husband Tommy.

Hell Below(2016-)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Hell Below is an event-based series charting the stealth game of sub sea warfare, tracking the dramatic narrative from contact to attack of the greatest submarine patrols of World War II. From the rise of the Wolfpack to the drive for victory in the Pacific, we profile the strategic masterminds and the rapid evolution of technology and tactics, as the threat of undersea warfare brings every sailor's worst nightmare to life. Expert analysis and stock footage are woven with narrative driven re-enactments filmed on authentic Second World War era submarines to place the characters at the heart of the action.

In From the Cold(2022)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

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.

Summer of Rockets(2019)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

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 contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.

Löwengrube(1989-1992)

1h per episode | Drama, Crime, War & Politics

"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

Directed by Rainer Wolffhardt

009-1(2006)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

In an alternate world, the Cold War has continued to persist for 140 years. As a result, the world was divided into two factions: the West Block, and the East Block. As the Cold War drags on, the tension between the two factions, as well as the amount of nuclear weapons they have, rise. Mylene Hoffman is a female cyborg who is a spy for the West Block. Together with three other agents, Mylene partakes in various missions issued by her superiors.

The Hour(2011-2012)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama, Talk-Show
3.7/5 (with 35 votes)

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.

Spyship(1983)

55min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor is determined to find out why.

Kennedy(2023)

TV-14
| 5h 36min per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A chronicle of John F. Kennedy's life, including his youth, ascension into politics, presidency, and his lasting impact on history.

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