Cold War Star Wars (Season 1, Episode 22)
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Cold War

Star Wars (Season 1, Episode 22)

TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the "evil empire," but abhors the idea of nuclear war. He is prepared to increase arms expendituresignificantly to protect the United States.

Director

Tessa Coombs

Producer

James Barker

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 31, 1998

Release date

1998 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
37 cast members

Name	Known for
Kenneth Branagh Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Henry V (1989)
Nina Andreyeva Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Anatoly Cherniayev Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Anatoli Dobrynin Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) See fewer	Vremya (1968)
'Doc' Frazier Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Florence Galing Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Leslie Gelb Self (as Leslie H. Gelb) Self (as Leslie H. Gelb) See fewer	The Vietnam War (2017)
Mikhail Gorbachev Self Self See fewer	Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Oleg Gordievsky Self Self See fewer	Vsyo OK (2024)
G.A. Keyworth II Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Maria Kovshura Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Igor Kurdin Self (as Captain Igor Kurdin) Self (as Captain Igor Kurdin) See fewer	Hunter Killer (2018)
Suzanne Massie Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Robert McFarlane Self (as Robert 'Bud' McFarlane) Self (as Robert 'Bud' McFarlane) See fewer	The Reagan Presidency (2012)
Gennadi Osipovich Self (as Col. Gennadi Osipovitch) Self (as Col. Gennadi Osipovitch) See fewer	Air Crash Investigation (2003)
Andrei Pavlov Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Charles Powell Self (as Sir Charles Powell) Self (as Sir Charles Powell) See fewer	The Pathfinder (1996)
Larisa Prokhorova Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Dan Rather Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Evening News with Dan Rather (1981)
Donald Regan Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Rozanne Ridgway Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Roald Sagdeev Self Self See fewer	The Orion Loop (1981)
Eduard Shevardnadze Self Self See fewer	Tbilisuri Love Story (2009)
George Shultz Self Self See fewer	The League
Sergei Tarasenko Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Valentin Varennikov Self (as Lt. Gen. Valentin Varennikov) Self (as Lt. Gen. Valentin Varennikov) See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Caspar Weinberger Self Self See fewer	World Business Review (1996)
Yuri Andropov Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
Leonid Brezhnev Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
George Bush Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	41 (II) (2012)
Konstantin Chernenko Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Vremya (1968)
Raisa Gorbacheva Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Beat with Ari Melber (2017)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Mathias Rust Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Morgenmagazin (1992)
Denis Thatcher Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	ITN News (1955)
Margaret Thatcher Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	SDI Star Wars (1991)
Tammy Wynette Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Cold Pursuit (2019)