Links to Related Web Sites

Mission to Moscow

Internet Movie Database (IMDb), an online movie database, includes reviews, a plot summary, production details, and biographical information about the cast and crew.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0036166

Cinema, Culture, and the State during World War II

"Powers of Persuasion," part of the National Archives' Online Exhibit Hall, features links to colorful wartime propaganda posters and radio advertisments promoting the U.S. government's information campaigns about secrecy, women's war work, the purchase of war bonds, and more.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

The Media Resources Center at the University of California, Berkeley, has a useful filmography listing movies made during and about World War II and other major conflicts.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Warfilm.html#wwII

The Avalon Project at the Yale School of Law includes a World War II section with numerous primary source documents related to foreign policy.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

HyperWar: A Hypertext History of World War II is a collection of electronically cross-referenced materials related to the military history of World War II.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/index.html

The Cold War and Hollywood

The companion site to CNN's special series "Cold War" includes an informative essay and film clips illustrating how Mission to Moscow and other wartime films helped spur the postwar investigation of Hollywood by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/culture/film.essay/index.html

The Red Scare: A Filmography, part of the All Powers Project at the University of Washington, focuses on relevant films before, during, and after the Cold War era.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/AllPowers/film.html

Marjorie Merriweather Post

The Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C., features Marjorie Merriweather Post's extensive collection of Russian art, including several Russian Ecclesiastical textiles that Post purchased while she was living in Moscow as the wife of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in the late 1930s.
http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/art_collection/textiles/russian.html