Topic

Cold War

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1950s nuclear paranoia scene with flying saucer, atomic explosion, newspaper headlines and a family facing the screen.

October 15, 2025

Nuclear Paranoia and Extraterrestrials in the 1950s

In the 1950s, Hollywood produced more than a hundred science-fiction films. Behind many of them stood the bomb, the infiltrated communist and the imagined end of the world.

1950s Cold War nuclear paranoia classic cinema

Soviet-inspired composition on Ikarie X-B 1 with spacecraft, lunar orbit, antennas and crew on a screen.

March 6, 2025

The Extraterrestrial in the Soviet Cold War Context: Ikarie X-B 1

Soviet science-fiction cinema during the Cold War, centred on Jindrich Polak's Ikarie X-B 1.

Ikarie X-B 1 Soviet cinema Cold War space race