Seeing Red is a 1983 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 directed by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Academy Award for Documentary Feature

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Plot

The documentary film looks at the political activities and activism of Americans who were members or supporters of the Communist Party. It is one of the first non-fiction films to examine the role of a third political party in the United States.