Movies and TvShows featuring "government-witch-hunt" theme.

Edward R. Murrow, a broadcast journalist, challenges Senator Joseph McCarthy and fights against the suppression of civil liberties and government censorship. Despite facing backlash and threats, Murrow and his team continue to report the truth and expose the corrupt practices during the McCarthy era.

Reds is a biographical drama that takes place during the Russian Revolution. It follows the story of a war correspondent and his co-worker's relationship while they are caught up in the revolutionary events.

AKA Tommy Chong is a documentary film that explores the government's witch-hunt against Tommy Chong, focusing on his involvement in the bong business. The film sheds light on the entrapment and legal battles he faced, as well as the larger issues surrounding marijuana in society. Through interviews and footage, it provides insight into the government's attempts to suppress Chong's activism and the impact it had on his life and career.

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.

This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts that terrorized the nation. This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the now deceased Hollywood figures whose careers were destroyed when studio bosses, along with guild and union officials capitulated to the demands of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The story of actor Kirk Douglas, the man and the legend, one of the last stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. An epic journey through the 20th century and the entire history of Hollywood. A testimony of the huge scope of his life and the scale of the myth. The untameable Kirk Douglas, the ragman's son.

In 1880, an inexperienced prosecutor must indict a group of people accused of witchcraft and murder on the island of Chiloé. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, to save her grandfather from the condemnation of the state, must be initiated into witchcraft.