It was a scary time, to be sure, but it also produced some great movies. This is a list of all those great movies that couldn't have happened without The Cold War and the fear of the Soviets.

Cold War movies aren't all serious, though. Stripes has one of the best lines in the history of war movies, when Winger (Bill Murray) explains that invading Czechoslovakia is like invading Wisconsin.

So David French launched a fun debate on Twitter by asking what the best Cold War movie was: Best Cold War movie? I say Hunt for Red October. Who disagrees with me and is therefore wrong?

James Hershberg, a Cold War historian, rates Cold War scenes in movies based on their realism. He separates fact from fiction regarding the nuclear arms race and atomic secrets depicted in ...