Red Nightmare (1957)
Note: this print runs 92 minutes against a recorded 29 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Jack Kelly, Jeanne Cooper
Directed by George Waggner
Red Nightmare is the best-known title of the 1962 Armed Forces Information Film (AFIF) 120, Freedom and You. Produced for and financed by the Department of Defense, the short film served as an anti-communist informational piece during the Cold War. It was later released on American television and distributed to schools under the title Red Nightmare.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
▶ Watch Red NightmareSaved films live in this browser, no account needed. See your list.
Also filed under
More from POST-WAR


More from the 1950s
FAQ
Where can I watch Red Nightmare for free?
Red Nightmare streams free on MOVIE REWIND, with no ads, no account and no algorithm. Press play and it runs straight through, all 1h 32m of it.
What year is Red Nightmare from?
Red Nightmare dates from 1957, directed by George Waggner. On MOVIE REWIND it plays on the POST-WAR channel.
Is Red Nightmare in the public domain?
MOVIE REWIND indexes films that are in the public domain or made freely available on YouTube by their rights holders. Every title is health-checked, so if a copy is pulled it drops out of the rotation.
MOVIE REWIND is free and always will be: no ads, no account, no algorithm. It is kept running by one person, and the catalogue and all of its metadata are given away under CC0. If it showed you something worth watching, you can chip in.
Buy the archivist a coffee