Menace (1952) DVD
 
From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The National Film Board 1952. This post World War Two propaganda film warns of a red tide sweeping the world and the growing communist menace in Australia that is after the hearts and minds of our youth. Equating communism with slavery, it presents images of thriving industry and abundant leisure in the West with poverty and destruction in the East. It's less than subtle approach mirrors the soviet propaganda it derides. Coinciding with Australia's involvement in the Korean War it is also a call to arms on foreign soil as well as a campaign against perceived domestic threats to our freedom at a time of heightened fear and paranoia.