Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie
1/8/2020
53

Storyline

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.

Director:
Peter Bardehle
Writer:
Peter Bardehle
  • cold war
  • soviet union
  • secret base
  • military base
  • arctic polar circle region
  • space race
  • cuban missile crisis
  • missile threat
  • polar exploration
  • 1950s
  • greenland
  • 1960s
  • cold war propaganda
  • ecologism

Cast

  • Tanja Dohse
    Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen
    Self - Historian
  • Sören Gregersen
    Self - Former Camp Century Worker
  • Chuck Rose
    Self - Former US Air Force
  • Sergei Khrushchev
    Self - Engineer
  • Aleqa Hammond
    Self - Politician
  • Horst Machguth
    Self - Glaciologist
  • Nikita Khrushchev
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Richard Nixon
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • John F. Kennedy
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Yuri Gagarin
    Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage)

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