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Mr. Jones is excellent. Among other things, it finally gives Walter Duranty his due. It should be mandatory viewing in all journalism schools. I’ve not seen The Inner Circle but will add it to my watchlist. Some other good films on communism, in no particular order:

Balloon (2018, Michael Herbig, dir., Kanopy)

The Way Back (2010; Peter Weir, dir.; not the more recent film with the same name; this one has Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and a young Saoirse Ronan)

The Tower (2012, Christian Schwochow, dir., deals with East Germany/Stasi)

The Death of Stalin (2017; Armando Iannucci, dir.)

Dear Comrades! (2020; Andrey Konchalovskiy)

Ashes in the Snow (2018)

Within the Whirlwind (2009)

Chernobyl (2019; tv miniseries)

First They Killed My Father (2019; deals with Cambodia)

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The Death of Stalin (2017; Armando Iannucci, dir.)

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Almost forgot about that one. Excellent black comedy. Jason Issacs stole the show as Marshall Zhukov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0-h3cj8YY

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“The Lives of Others” is a very good 2006 movie drama about the East German Stasi surveillance of a protesting writer.