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Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2006)

Fantastic docudrama. It must have taken a lot of courage to do it. As a Canadian, however, I would like to point out that most foreign and/or young viewers will be left out in the dark about the nature of the battle with Senator Joe McCarthy. This movie is just too short. I am old enough to know how excruciatingly close the Americans then came to loosing it, 'it' being their freedoms and rights. Dictatorships don't happen when 'big bad' people plot against the citizens at 3 AM in dark bars, but when ordinary citizens worry about their own little freedoms and rights, but not about those of others. This movie has been extraordinarily well-timed, at a moment when the Bush-league politicians are more worried about their re-election than about doing what's right for America (and for the rest of the free world, I might add), and when 'journalists' are more preoccupied with their ratings than with the Truth.