Cold War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==In popular culture== {{See also|Culture during the Cold War}} During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union invested heavily in propaganda designed to influence people around the world, especially using motion pictures.{{sfn|Shaw|Youngblood|2010|loc=ch. 1}}{{page needed|date=September 2015}} The Cold War endures as a popular topic reflected in entertainment media, and continuing to the present with post-1991 Cold War-themed feature films, novels, television and web series, and other media. In 2013, a KGB-sleeper-agents-living-next-door action drama series, ''[[The Americans]]'', set in the early 1980s, was ranked No. 6 on the [[Metacritic]] annual Best New TV Shows list; its six-season run concluded in May 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=2013 Film Critic Top Ten Lists |url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2013 |website=Metacritic |access-date=5 November 2022 |language=en |archive-date=11 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211032303/https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lowry |first1=Brian |title=The Americans β Variety |newspaper=Variety |url=http://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/the-americans-1117949116/ |access-date=5 November 2022 |date=26 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226182921/http://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/the-americans-1117949116/ |archive-date=26 February 2015 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page