Mccarthyism Movies, Movies about Mccarthyism

Here we've displayed a list of the best Mccarthyism films : Trumbo(2007), Good Night, and Good Luck.(2005), The Front(1976), A King in New York(1957), Storm Center(1956), Guilty by Suspicion(1991), I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.(1951), Big Jim McLain(1952), Fellow Traveller(1989), Something for the Birds(1952) ... ...

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Trumbo

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ... See full summary »

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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The Front

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

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A King in New York

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

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Storm Center

During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves.

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Guilty by Suspicion

David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood Director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on... See full summary »

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I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.

In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage boy thinks he's a real Red.

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Big Jim McLain

In the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists.

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Fellow Traveller

The 1950s McCarthy witch hunt ruins a Hollywood star (Hart Bochner) and drives his screenwriter friend (Ron Silver) to London.

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Something for the Birds

An old rascal (Edmund Gwenn) unites Washington lobbyists (Victor Mature, Patricia Neal) at odds on a bill affecting the California condor.

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