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Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made About Revolutionary Politics
In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds, a retelling of John Reed’s classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics.