Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
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.
- 6.3
- 1983
- Released
- 1h 40m
Oscar Hunter
Himself - PrinterRose Podmaka
Herself - Steel Mill WorkerSylvia Woods
Herself - Auto WorkerHoward 'Stretch' Johnson
Himself - College Professor
Bill Bailey
Himself - Seaman and LongshoremanEdna Whitehouse
Self - Legal SecretaryRuth Maguire
Self - Program AdministratorStanley Postek
Self - SeamanDorothy Ray Healey
Self - Party Leader (as Dorothy Healey)Carl Hirsch
Self - Writer
Pete Seeger
Self - FolksingerMarge Frantz
Self - Southern ActivistRose Kryzak
Self - Actuarial ClerkAl Prago
Self - Labor EducatorMuriel Eldridge
Self - SecretaryFlo Lorenz
Voice over (voice)Leon Holster
Voice over (voice) (as Leon Hollster)Released
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- #woman director
- #communist party
- #political documentary
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The introduction from the then President Reagan gives us an indication of what’s 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,