Best Cold War movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Octavia Spencer,
Directors : Guillermo del Toro,

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Actors : Mark Rylance, Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Claire Foy, Kyle Chandler, Ryan Gosling,
Directors : Damien Chazelle,

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Actors : Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : John McTiernan,

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Actors : Oskar Werner, Richard Burton, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Diane Baker,
Directors : Mark Robson,

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Actors : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...