What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen?
Directed by Patrick Smith · Starring Addison Anderson · 2017
An animated lesson tracing how 1950s anti-communist investigations spread across America and destroyed lives and careers.
A clear, illustrated history lesson on one of America's darkest political episodes.
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