Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

Peter Bardehle
2020-01-08


7
53 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Tanja Dohse Self - Narrator (voice) Unowned
Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen Self - Historian Unowned
Sören Gregersen Self - Former Camp Century Worker Unowned
Chuck Rose Self - Former US Air Force Unowned
Sergei Khrushchev Self - Engineer Unowned
Aleqa Hammond Self - Politician Unowned
Horst Machguth Self - Glaciologist Unowned
Nikita Khrushchev Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Richard Nixon Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
John F. Kennedy Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Yuri Gagarin Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage) Unowned