The News-Benders

This excellent 30 minute BBC2 play from 1968 lays out the plans ahead for fake news, fake space and a controlled society.

Escape From New York

Air Force One is hijacked by insurgents and is deliberately crashed in New York City.
Afternoon Matinée

Fantastic Voyage

The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturise matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour.
Afternoon Matinée

Telefon

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents.
Afternoon Matinée

Nineteen Eighty Four

In the spring of 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the elite Outer Party, encounters Julia, a woman he suspects may be a member of the Thought Police.
Afternoon Matinée