What are some movies and literary works that reflect the "Cold War" from a Western perspective?

To say that the best reflection of the Cold War is to look at the films made by Germany, a country deeply traumatized by the Cold War era.

Generally, in the English context, cold war literature, film and television works mainly refer to stories related to "spies", such as most of le Carré's works.

1. The Murders Among Us - 1946 Germany

This film, ranked sixth among the 100 greatest German films, is the first so-called ruins movie. It uses many expressionistic elements, dim light, tilted angles, ghostly shadows, and is quite Dr. Caligari style. Apart from the style, the plot is too jumpy and the process of the two falling in love is completely incomprehensible. The Cold War is actually a symbol of the insecurity between the two superpowers after World War II. This film is a story about a German in the post-World War II period examining the ups and downs of human nature in history. And the unexpected love and the mutual redemption of moths rushing into the flame, aren't they the meaning of human nature?

2. The Cranes Are Flying Yan Nan Fei - 1957 Former Soviet Union

This film was the winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958 and is also my favorite film from the former Soviet Union. Not one. The fighting nation is a nation of poetry, and those filmmakers are using poetry to shoot their scenes. The tone of the film is not as sharp as other black and white films, but has a softness like a gauze. Apart from the montage of rotating shots where the hero dies in battle, what I love most is the two-minute shot depicting the crowd of farewells. It was so smooth, so real, and so perfect that it was incredible. I think children born in Japan and China have some Soviet elements, with birch trees, flutes, and Russian girls with pigtails. I think the reason why this movie is on this list is to prove that no matter what role the Soviets played in the Cold War, in the end they were just ordinary people with various emotions.

3. Silk Stockings - 1957 United States

A musical with a Cold War theme is actually Hollywood's satire of the Cold War or the Soviet Union, a strange country. The heroine Garbo has beautiful legs and long legs, and the hero Fred plays a gangster. It is just a cliché story about a Soviet female commander who came to Paris from Moscow for a mission, got drunk in Paris, and betrayed communism. There is a very important supporting role in it, Peter Lorre, a German who was once the protagonist of M, the most important film in German film history. He was also a student of Freud. Later, he was persecuted by the Nazis and fled his country. He could only work in Hollywood musicals. Li Dangdang plays a supporting role. In the face of politics, no art is immortal, and no one is immortal.

Almost all films, television and literature that reflect the Cold War are "Western", because the "Cold War" originally referred to the intrigue between the United States and the Soviet Union, and more broadly refers to the West's specific targeting of communism.