Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

Name: Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2020-01-08
Duration: 53 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tanja Dohse, Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen, Sören Gregersen, Chuck Rose, Sergei Khrushchev

Arte (Free)

7.5(4 votes)

2020

0h 53m

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

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Overview

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.