Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983)

I’m so glad this film exists. History, particularly the type that powerful people don’t want shared, is so often lost after the people who lived it die. This documentary is filled with interviews and footage from loyal members and supporters of the American Communist Party. It tells the history of the party in the US, particularly from its highest popularity to its decline during the derangement that was the Second Red Scare. It’s intriguing to me that this was made during the climax of the Cold War and still painted a sympathetic view of these American patriots.

Oscar Nomination: Best Documentary, Features