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Films about McCarthyism

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Oppenheimer (film)

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

On the Waterfront

1954 film by Elia Kazan

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005 film by George Clooney

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956 film directed by Don Siegel

The Manchurian Candidate

1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer

1996 film by Nicholas Hytner

Being the Ricardos

2021 film directed by Aaron Sorkin

1976 film by Martin Ritt

1985 comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn

1985 film by Nicolas Roeg

Cradle Will Rock

1999 film by Tim Robbins

1954 film by Allan Dwan

1957 film by Raymond Rouleau

The House on Carroll Street

1988 film directed by Peter Yates

I Was a Communist for the FBI

1951 film by Gordon Douglas

1956 film by Daniel Taradash

The Woman on Pier 13

1950 film by Robert Stevenson

1992 television film directed by Frank Pierson

1964 film by Emile de Antonio

1994 television film directed by Paul Schrader