Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
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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
Released Date: 2020-01-08
Runtime: 53 mins
Director: Peter Bardehle
Writer: Peter Bardehle
Spoken language: Dansk, English, Deutsch
Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Original title: Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Production Companies: Vidicom Media, ZDF, ARTE
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
Tanja Dohse
Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen
Sören Gregersen
Chuck Rose
Sergei Khrushchev
Aleqa Hammond
Horst Machguth
Nikita Khrushchev
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Yuri Gagarin
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