List of anti-communist films

Anti-communist films are typically political films that criticize the ideology of communism or communist governments, such as the Soviet Union. Many such films were created in the United States, during the Cold War.

Anti-communist films

The following films have been interpreted by film critics or media sources as anti-communist films, or have been stated by their filmmakers as such.

Film Year Ref(s)
5 Steps to Danger 1957 [1]
Antz[lower-alpha 1] 1998 [4]
Arctic Flight 1952 [5]
Assignment – Paris! 1952 [5]
The Atomic City 1952 [5]
Bells of Coronado 1950 [5]
Big Jim McLain 1952 [6][7]
Bolshevism on Trial 1919
A Bullet for Joey 1955
Case for a Rookie Hangman 1970
Ciguli Miguli 1952
Cold War 2018 [8]
Comrade X 1940 [5]
Conspirator 1949 [9]
Dangerous Hours 1919
The Death of Stalin 2017
Denk bloß nicht, ich heule 1965
Dimensions of Dialogue 1983
Diplomatic Courier 1952
Doctor Zhivago 1965 [10]
The Ear 1970
Face to Face with Communism 1951
The Fearmakers 1958
The Firemen's Ball[lower-alpha 2] 1967 [12]
From Russia with Love 1963 [13]
GoldenEye 1995
The Green Berets 1968
Guilty of Treason 1950 [5]
He Stayed for Breakfast 1940 [5]
Hitlerjunge Quex 1933
The Hoaxters 1952 [5]
Hotel Lux 2011 [14]
I Was a Communist for the FBI 1951 [15]
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? 1971
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 [13]
Interrogation 1982
Invasion U.S.A. 1985
Invasion, U.S.A. 1952
The Iron Curtain 1948
It Came from Outer Space 1953 [16]
Jet Pilot 1957 [5]
Katyń 2007
The Killing Fields 1984
The Lives of Others 2006 [17]
The Living Daylights 1987 [13]
A Lonely Woman 1981
The Manchurian Candidate 1962
Man of Iron 1981
Man on a Tightrope 1953 [18]
The Mother of Kings 1982
Mr Jones 2019 [19]
My Son John 1952 [20]
Night People 1954 [5]
Ninotchka 1939 [21]
North by Northwest 1959 [7]
On the Waterfront 1954
Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI 1984 [22]
Pickup on South Street 1953 [7]
Prisoner of War 1954 [5]
The Rabbit Is Me 1965
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 [23]
Rambo III 1988 [23]
Reagan 2023 [24]
The Red Danube 1949 [9]
Red Dawn 1984
The Red Menace 1949
Red Nightmare 1962 [25]
Red Planet Mars 1952 [26]
Red Salute 1935 [5]
Red Scorpion 1988
Red Snow 1952 [5]
The Red Viper 1919 [5]
The Right to Happiness 1915
Rio Bravo 1959 [27]
Rocky IV 1985 [23]
Satan Never Sleeps 1962
Shack Out on 101 1955 [28]
Shivers 1981
Silk Stockings 1957 [5]
Sofia 1948 [5]
Stalker[lower-alpha 3] 1979 [29]
The Steel Fist 1952
Target Earth 1954 [30]
The Thief 1952 [5]
This Can't Happen Here 1950 [31]
Tokyo File 212 1951
The Thing from Another World 1951 [32]
Trial 1955 [5]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988
The Undercurrent 1919
Walk a Crooked Mile 1948
Walk East on Beacon 1952
The Whip Hand 1951
The Woman on Pier 13 1949 [9]

References
  1. "Palace Offers 'Five Steps to Danger'". New York Times. 31 January 1957.
  2. Tibbs, Ross (17 November 2022). "Hear Me Out: The animated DreamWorks movie 'Antz' is an anti-communist allegory". Far Out.
  3. Driskell, Mira Kudva. "Antz': Marxist Propaganda for Kids". The Cornell Daily Sun.
  4. Leatham, Thomas (21 November 2022). "Netflix Flashback: 'Antz' the animated anti-communist allegory". Best of Netflix.
  5. Glenda Pearson (5 March 1998). "The Red Scare: A Filmography". University of Washington.
  6. Crowther, Bosley (18 September 1952). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' Big Jim McLain,' Film Study of Congressional Work Against Communism, at Paramount". New York Times.
  7. Capshaw, Ron (3 August 2015). "Best Anti-communist Movies". National Review.
  8. Continetti, Matthew (2 March 2019). "Cold War's Devastating Anti-Communism". National Review.
  9. "The Red Danube". Film Score Monthly.
  10. Finn, Peter; Couvee, Petra (5 April 2014). "During Cold War, CIA used 'Doctor Zhivago' as a tool to undermine Soviet Union". Washington Post.
  11. Hames, Peter (2005). The Czechoslovak New Wave. Wallflower Press. p. 120. ISBN 1-904764-42-8.
  12. Ebert, Roger (4 August 2002). "The Firemen's Ball". RogerEbert.com.
  13. Serafino, Jason. "The 25 Most Memorable Communist Villains In Movies". Complex Networks.
  14. "Stalin Cavorts With Hitler in Communist Spoof 'Hotel Lux': Film". Bloomberg. 1 November 2011.
  15. Variety Staff (31 December 1951). "I Was a Communist for the F.B.I." Variety.
  16. Bosworth, Patricia (27 September 1992). "FILM; Daughter of a blacklist that killed a father". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017.
  17. Butler, Jack (30 May 2021). "Much-Belated Praise for The Lives of Others". National Review.
  18. Fowler, Jack (14 January 2019). "A Great Anti-Communist Flick". National Review.
  19. Smith, Kyle (2 July 2020). "Mr. Jones Tells Truth About New York Times and Communism".
  20. Haas, Elizabeth; Christiansen, Terry; Haas, Peter (2015). Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films (2nd ed.). Routledge. pp. 141–2. ISBN 9781317520030.
  21. Shaw, Tony (2007). Hollywood's Cold War. Edinburgh University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0748630738.
  22. Ibrahim, Raka (28 September 2021). "Anti-communist movie has dubious legacy among Indonesia's youth". The Jakarta Post.
  23. Taubman, Phillip (4 January 1986). "SOCIET PANS 'ROCKY' AND 'RAMBO' FILMS". New York Times.
  24. Bond, Paul (28 July 2021). "Inside the Making of Hollywood's New Ronald Reagan Movie". Newsweek. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  25. Armond White (17 February 2021). "When Television Was Anti-Communist and Jack Webb Was King". National Review.
  26. Variety Staff (31 December 1951). "Red Planet Mars". Variety.
  27. Munn, Michael (2005). John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth. New York: Penguin. p. 190. ISBN 0451214145. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  28. "SHACK OUT ON 101". dennisschwartzreviews.com. 14 April 2005.
  29. Lis, Renata (30 May 2020). "The Stalker's Daughter". Przekrój Magazine.
  30. Hogan, David J. (October 2017). Invasion USA: Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s. McFarland & Company. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-0786499045.
  31. Kenny, Glenn (4 September 2018). "Review: 'This Can't Happen Here,' the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury". New York Times.
  32. Schager, Nick (13 August 2003). "Review: The Thing from Another World". Slant Magazine.

Notes
  1. The film has been interpreted as both anti-communism[2] and pro-communism.[3]
  2. Director Miloš Forman stated that the film was not intended to be allegorical. Nonetheless, the film angered the Czechoslovak Communist party upon its release.[11]
  3. Interpreted by some critics as anti-communist.

See also
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