Michael Moore is the Breitbart of the left, only Bretibart managed against all odds to die first. Perhaps he choked on his own mediocrity? Moore possesses the ability to unhinge his jaw and could (and has!) easily swallowed things of that magnitude whole.
At any rate, the topic is documentaries. A big +1 for
The Fog of War. For the record, Donperkan, it's more of an insider's window into the dealings of the day, especially the Vietnam War, than it is a Cold War documentary. For one man's ramblings, it's actually fairly evenhanded and deals a lot with the lessons McNamara's had time to learn from decades of reflection. He even manages to come across as contrite at times, and the film does a fairly decent job of highlighting the lunacy
and the sensibility of both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam. Also, it does a decent job (without actually trying!) of painting the U.S. bigwigs from WWII onward as the sons-of-bitches they've ofttimes been, without massaging facts or having a childish chip on its shoulder. You might enjoy it.
While we're on the subject of the cold war, I hate to come across as a monomaniac but I can't in good conscience not mention
The Atomic Cafe and
Countdown to Zero, both of great interest to anyone who considers themselves a student of the Atomic age. The former (on the remote chance that there's someone here who hasn't heard of it) is a darkly humorous collection of Atomic Age footage and propaganda, completely sans unifying narration, that thoroughly skewers the Government-propogated "Duck and Cover" ignorance and optimism of the atomic age in America. The latter traces and documents the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weaponry. Its message is one of global nuclear disarmament, but even if you don't agree, it's worth a watch for the history lesson alone.
