Joseph McCarthy Movies

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Strathairn

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Point of Order is compiled from TV footage of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, in which the Army accused Senator McCarthy of improperly pressuring...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joseph McCarthy

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clark Clifford

Life, career and death of the two protagonists of American life sixties, John and Robert Kennedy, from the days of their ascent to the White House,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacqueline Kennedy

This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Frees

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Campbell Scott

A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anwar Al-Awlaki

At the height of the Cold War, President Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be security risks. A vicious witch hunt ensues, ruining thousands of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glenn Close

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

Professor Valentin Zorin, political observer of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, talks about Joseph McCarthy, an American...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valentin Zorin

Documentary of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the early 1950s by trumpeting allegations of a vast conspiracy by alleged...

Genre: History

Cast: Paul Newman

Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Meacham

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Cohn

With his naïve air, his rangy and reassuring silhouette, James Stewart symbolizes success, someone who everybody wants to look like. Behind his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Stewart

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Cohn

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ethel Kennedy

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralph Fiennes