This trailer/clip is from the Independent Estonian documentary Disco and The Atomic War, a playful, inventive (in form), and wildly entertaining doc that illustrates the use of soft power in The Cold War.  As the movie explains, hard power is tanks and invasions, while soft power is along the lines of exposing Estonians, via satellite from Finland, to American TV, specifically Dallas, Knight Rider, and programs about, you guessed it, Disco!

One reviewer called this film, an alternative history on The Cold War, but some might study this period of policy, engagement, and non-engagement (ahem) and argue that this is an essential part of the history of The Cold War; it’s ideological heart, if you will.  While The Cold War certainly had it’s share of violence, much of this battle of ideologies did not occur on the battlefield, and this movie illustrates that truth, a truth which is at times so amusing it seems to mask it’s place in academia to some reviewers of this film.