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161) Deutschland 83
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It's 1983. The Cold War is hot. The threat of nuclear conflict looms. Born and raised in East Germany, Martin Rauch is sent undercover, as Moritz Stamm, to West Germany, to work for a top General in the Bundeswehr. Officially, his job is to gather intelligence on the placement of the Pershing II Missiles. A secondary gig develops, infiltrating youth culture through close relationships with the General's two children. But nothing and no one are as...
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Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an FBI agent movies in across the street, they become ensnared...
163) Chariot: Vol. 1
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The Chariot was a Cold War-era secret government project to provide its star agent with a weapon unlike any other in the form of a super-charged muscle car. It sank into the ocean decades ago, and the agent along with it. Now, a petty criminal looking to reform his life has stumbled upon the Chariot, and he's about to find out that the agent's consciousness is still controlling it in this synthwave thriller.
164) MAYDAY
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"April 1971: The CIA is handed the espionage coup of the decade when a KGB general defects with a list of all Soviet intelligence assets in Asia--including spies within the US Army in Vietnam. All Jack Hudson has to do is collect the defector and his microfilm from California...while keeping Palm Springs' overzealous FBI office from turning everything into a freakshow. All Codename: Felix has to do is kill the defector and get the microfilm back to...
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The year is 1966. S.H.I.E.L.D. sends agent Ran Shen to collect two Nazi scientists with the key to winning the Cold War. But the Soviets want the scientists as well, and they've unleashed their most dangerous operative: the Winter Soldier, aka Captain America's brainwashed and presumed-dead partner Bucky Barnes! His mission: acquire the scientists by any means necessary - or kill them. The only obstacles in the Winter Soldier's way are an elite Hydra...
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"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall."--
Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of Exile on Main...
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"Uncovers new evidence that reveals how John F. Kennedy reversed years of entrenched United States government policy to embark on secret back-channel peace efforts with Nikita Krushchev, Fidel Castro, and other ... American enemies. The film brings to light how President Kennedy was subverted by top US officials and considers how the world might be different had he lived."--Container.
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"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation, ' its 'sole superpower,...