A new podcast exploring key moments in Cold War sports history. In the first episode, Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire) and Denise Youngblood (University of Vermont) discuss how Cold War tensions played out in American and Soviet films.

What was the Soviet response to Rocky IV? How were American athletes portrayed in Soviet sports films? Who won the cinematic Cold War?

Episode notes: http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/resource/sport-in-the-cold-war/episode-01-the-cinematic-cold-war