To Russia with Love: Radio Free Europe and the Cold War (2009)
• November 30th, 2009 • 0h 52min
Documentary
Overview
That the Cold War did not end in blood and tears was Radio Free Europe’s ultimate victory. “To Russia with Love” tells how it won the hearts and minds of the people behind the Iron Curtain and brought down the Communist rule over Eastern Europe. The story of Radio Free Europe has not been told on film so far. The documentary retells the story of Radio Free Europe from the point of view of the RFE journalists and their audience. It addresses topics like: What did it mean for a dissident to broadcast to the country they still called home, to fight against a government, which had forced them to leave? How much was their everyday life ruled by fear for the family members they had left behind, knowing that their own actions could possibly threaten their relatives in the East? “To Russia with Love” also pictures how communist regimes fought the station.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Animated Soviet Propaganda
Released on: 1997-06-15
Documentary, Animation
A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...
From Harlem with Love
Released on: 2014-04-23
Documentary
Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Released on: 2024-09-11
Documentary, History, Music
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...
Spies: The Dirty Game of Espionage
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary
You are about to enter the world of double-cross and triple-cross, of information and disinformation...
Ice-Breaker: The '72 Summit Series
Released on: 2025-02-20
Documentary, History
September 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series, the iconic hockey tournament that p...
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Released on: 2009-09-06
History, Documentary, Music
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
The Day Called X
Released on: 1957-12-08
TV Movie, Documentary
Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...
Mission to Mir
Released on: 1997-10-17
Documentary
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...
The Queen of the Waves
Released on: 1936-06-17
Animation, Documentary
An animated short film that explains in a pedagogical way how the radio transmission works. Created ...
Nukes in Space
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary, History
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
Espions pour la planète
Released on: 2016-12-20
Documentary
In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...
Rockin' the Wall
Released on: 2014-09-08
Documentary, History, Music
Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the...
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Released on: 2020-01-08
Documentary, History, TV Movie
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
The Crazy Che
Released on: 2015-11-19
Documentary, Animation, History
The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.
McCarthy
Released on: 2020-01-06
Documentary, History
"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
1989
Released on: 2014-11-05
Documentary, History
Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Released on: 2019-12-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
Land of White Alice
Released on: 1960-01-01
Documentary
Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...
Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow
Released on: 1956-11-07
Documentary
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...