''Face to Face with Communism'' (1951) is an American
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
propaganda
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film. It dramatized the effects on a small town of an imagined invasion of the United States by the
Soviet Union
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. Its running time was 26 minutes.
See also
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Battle Beneath the Earth'' (1967)
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Invasion, U.S.A. (1952 film)
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Invasion literature
Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the World War I, First World War (1914–1918). The invasion novel was first recognised as a literary genr ...
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Mosinee, Wis., mock Communist takeover (1950)
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Not This August
''Not This August'', also known as ''Christmas Eve'', is a Hugo Award shortlisted science fiction novel by Cyril M. Kornbluth. It was originally published in 1955 by Doubleday. It was serialized in ''Maclean's'' magazine (Canada) in May and J ...
'' (1955)
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Red Nightmare'' (1962)
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Rocket Attack U.S.A.'' (1958)
References
External links
National Archives Catalog*
Cold War films
1951 films
American anti-communist propaganda films
American black-and-white films
1950s American films
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