Adding to Prof. Blanchard's list of films celebrating communists, I add Frida, a bio-pic about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, both of whom were fervent communists. If the Wikipedia article is accurate, Frida was a defender of Stalin and Mao. And then Hollywood gave Salma Hayek an Academy Award nomination for her sympathetic portrayal of this defender of mass murderers.
It might also be noted that Mao's "Little Red Book" was a "must read" among student radicals of the 1960s.
Those interested in an account of communist atrocities, I recommend the Black Book of Communism.
By the way, a sign that there is a God is that Reds lost out to Chariots of Fire for Best Picture back in 1982.
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