Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
★ 7.5 · 2020 · 53m · Documentary · History · TV Movie
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.
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