Films for Freedom: An Anti-Communist Festival

It’s time for an an anti-communist film festival.

Conservatives have been complaining about Hollywood for decades, yet the right has struggled, through lack of will or lack of money, to make movies promoting freedom and revealing the evils of socialism. The answer? Hold an anti-Communist film festival.

This fundraiser is to rent a theater for a week in the fall of 2026 and provide licensing fees for the movies screened.

The festival director is Mark Judge, the author of The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi.

Last year the American Film Institute screened a series on films of the 1950s, and several of the movies are warnings about the dangers of communism. They are strikingly relevant in America in 2025. In 1951’s "I Was a Communist for the FBI," an FBI agent learns about a Marxist plan for chaos includes urban riots intended to “divide and conquer,” by pitting the races against then make profits off the court cases. One character celebrates it as “a hellbrew of hate.” Another character in the film is a high school teacher - “What better place to serve the party than in a high school?” He says.

There’s the 1952 classic My Son John. starring Helen Hayes and Van Heflin. My Son John tells the story of a family discovering that their son who works in Washington is a communist spy. John tells his mother that “there are more important things than a mother’s love for her son” - i.e., the state. I Married a Communist reveals the savagery with which communists treat those who try to defect.

These films could all be screened at an anti-communist film festival, which I believe would have a huge turnout. Of course, it would also include the 2006 classic "The Lives of Others," about the evil of the East German Stasi. It’s the best contemporary pro-freedom film made in the last fifty years.

The estimate for theater rental and licensing fees is approximately $20,000.