Joe McCarthy was right.
Here’s a couple movies to have your kids watch:
Closet Land
The Lives of Others
The Killing Fields
Enemies of the People (more of a documentary)
The Inner Circle
I watched that movie back when it came out. It was put out by Amnesty International, which is now just as much in support of totalitarianism as it claimed to be against it back in the day. Alan Rickman was excellent in it.
Goodbye, Lenin!
“Lives Of Others” was extraordinarily powerful.
That scene where they were bugging the apartment, and the old lady was looking through the keyhole at them and the guy saw the light in the keyhole change and just marched over...
I think that is a pretty accurate portrayal of the mindset of omnipresent surveillance.
If you really want to get depressed, watch “The Chekist”.
My Latvia (1954), a short documentary on the Soviet takeover of Latvia, is well worth watching.
Operation Abolition (1960) recounts a House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearing in San Francisco in the spring of 1960 and the efforts of leftists to disrupt it. It was widely distributed and presented by conservative and patriotic groups in the early 1960s and later picked up by liberal and leftist groups who saw it as an expose of anti-Communist "witch hunting."
Damn Right Joseph McCarthy was right. He was an American Hero, and should be considered one.
Kazan’s MAN ON A TIGHTROPE, starring Fredric March as a Czech circus ringmaster trying to smuggle his troupe out from behind the Iron Curtain, has some pungent scenes of communist scumbaggery.
“The Lives of Others” was an excellent movie.