A 114 minute DVD of instructional and educational films that hoped to educate the American public about the menace of the Soviet Union. These films come from the A/V Geeks Educational Film Archive and proceeds from this sale go to support the archive, so that these films can be preserved for future generations.

Titles Include:

Russia At War (1945) 17 minutes

Made months after the end of World War II, this film heralds the Russians as a great ally who helped us defeat Germany. But even as this film was being shown, politicians on both sides of the Iron Curtain were beginning to question each others' postwar motives in occupied countries. Within only a couple of years, footage like in this film would be shown with narration proclaiming the villainy of the Russian people.

What is Communism (1963) 13 minutes

Hosted by Herbert A Philbrick, celebrated double-agent for the FBI and author of "I Led 3 Lives", this film is an excellent record of one of Philbrick's lectures about the evils of Communism he would give across the country. While some valid points are made about the machinations of the Communist party, films like this helped feed the America public's rabid mistrust of anything remotely communist. Philbrick continued his campaign against the Communist menace even after the fall of the Berlin Wall until his death in 1993.

Red Myth: International Communism (1960) 29 minutes

Through a series of dramatic vignettes, this film examines how Soviet Communism strayed from its well-intentioned ideological roots to a repressive authoritarian state. The producer of the show, Witold Sworakowski, was a renowned scholar on the Communist International movement.

Yankee Go Home (1950) 45 minutes

In this wonderful U.S. propaganda piece about Soviet propaganda, George V. Allen, director of the U. S. Information Agency and Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek discuss with members of the Armed Forces how the Soviet Union was beating us in the disinformation race.

Crusade Report (1951) 10 minutes

This film was a progress report of the Crusade for Freedom - an organization that was set up to continue the private fundraising campaign started by President Eisenhower to setup radio transmitters to broadcast American propaganda to communist countries - like Radio Free Europe. Later it was revealed that the Crusade for Freedom was a C.I.A. front that funneled money into projects to destablize pro-communist regimes.