Hollywood has a complicated past with varying, even contradictory, ideologies—and communism has long been flirted with quietly (and boldly!) in films made during the Golden Age of Hollywood: 1929 through to the 1960s. Thus we offer two films on this contentious subject, a thorough documentary by Thom Andersen and Noël Burch guided by previously blacklisted voices, and an unusually bold view of communal working life during the Great Depression.