Camp Century: The Secret City Under the Ice

Camp Century: The Secret City Under the Ice

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 2020

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.

Camp Century: The Secret City Under the Ice

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 2020

Camp Century: The Secret City Under the Ice
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.
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Vidicom
Original title Die Stadt unter dem Eis – Kalter Krieg auf Grönland
Directors Peter Bardehle
Writers Peter Bardehle

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)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin

as Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage)