Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

  • History
  • Documentary
10/4/1983
100

They were a special breed of American outlaw... and their story has never been told.

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

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  • Geronimo1967

    The introduction from the then President Reagan gives us an indication of whats to come as he adopts that hale-fellow-well-met approach of his to warn of the continuing dangers to the USA of ever-expanding Communism. Thereafter, for about ten minutes, we see examples of the congressional accusatory and defensive rhetoric that abounded during the witch-hunt period and subsequently. Then, though, rather counterintuitively it starts to talk to people . Ordinary people. Ordinary socialists or people of the left wing involved in the trades union movement as far back as the 1930s or with anti-war protests - and what many of them say makes eminent sense. They refer back to the whole principles of the founding fathers creating a free America. Free ...

    June 22, 2025

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