Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
2020
7.5 (4)
53 min
German
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Vidicom Media, ZDF, ARTE
Keywords
- 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
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Top Cast
Tanja Dohse as Self - Narrator (voice)
Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen as Self - Historian
Sören Gregersen as Self - Former Camp Century Worker
Chuck Rose as Self - Former US Air Force
Sergei Khrushchev as Self - Engineer
Aleqa Hammond as Self - Politician
Horst Machguth as Self - Glaciologist
Nikita Khrushchev as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Top Crew
Peter Bardehle · Director, Writer
Anselme Pau · Composer
Nils Kacirek · Composer
Tom Bresinsky · Cinematographer
Vincent Jackson · Cinematographer
Photos
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