It is all too easy to reduce the Cold War to simply a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. But there is another story of many nations, actors, and political groups that sought to take advantage of this conflict and advance their own agendas or adapt to the political realities of a post World War II landscape. This course explores the history and memory of the Cold War with a focus on primary sources, and secondary sources in the form of films and TV shows that depict the conflict through the eyes of actors who are normally seen on the periphery. In the end, students will have a better understanding of what the Cold War meant to different parts of the world and what was at stake in this transformative time.