# How many films have their been on communism and communist leaders? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405 "2002-04-24T17:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Komsomol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Komsomol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Komsomol)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/1 "2002-04-24T17:51:47Z")
How many films have there been that promote or discredit communism? And how many about the leaders? ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/2 "2002-04-24T18:09:20Z")
I can’t answer your question with any sort of authority, so I won’t try. But I’m curious why you’re asking. The two threads you just started both relate to communism in entertainment. Are you starting to research a paper or something like that? If you fill us in on the assignment we might be able to help more. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/3 "2002-04-24T18:14:27Z")
Check out general questions too. Although given **Morden’s** past history and having already been warned once by the mod’s in general questions I imagine he will be on a fourth alias soon. Either this is a term paper, or an exercise in annoyance (its working). :wally _-me_ ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/4 "2002-04-24T18:15:13Z")
Once there was a film about a guy trying to get a message board to write his research paper on Communism. ---
**Author:** ![Komsomol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Komsomol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Komsomol)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/5 "2002-04-24T18:29:11Z")
I saw a film with robert Duvall in it, he played stalin, and this prompted this for me to see how many films have been made on communism. Who is Morden? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/6 "2002-04-24T18:58:41Z")
Try a Russo-Finnish production entitled: “Jack Frost”. 😉 (MST3K fans will know what I’m talking about…) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/7 "2002-04-24T19:12:28Z")
_Song of Russia_ is an icky little piece of propoganda that might appeal to the OP, since it presents a glowing and fact-free example of life under Stalin in 1941. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/8 "2002-04-24T19:15:26Z")
Maybe _Battleship Potemkin_. It’s a silent black & white classic that has something to do with Russia. I forgot its actual content, though. (It’s been a while.) Warren Beatty’s _Reds_ deals with the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/9 "2002-04-24T19:23:19Z")
You might also try Eisentein’s Battleship Potemkin. It’s a classic example of the height of Soviet documentary/propaganda. He made a wise choice in ending the film when the ship sailed back into port in St. Petersburg, and not showing what happened next. After all, who wants to see babies impaled on bayonets? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-films-have-their-been-on-communism-and-communist-leaders/105405/10 "2002-04-24T19:29:45Z")
What, doesn’t [_Red Dawn_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087985) count? 😉 We don’t need the military, we got Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson!