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It was an echo of the anti-communist rhetoric that past military dictators and subsequent conservative leaders have frequently invoked against South Korean liberals, who have long been defined by their support for reconciliation with Pyongyang.

“Red Scare” burrows deep not just into the well-known major players, including Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, and the Hollywood Ten, but also the myriad committees, opportunistic enablers and the long, long line of scapegoats who paid for the mid-20th-century anti-communist witch hunt.

After World War II, as Risen writes, “anti-communist fervor was both a catalyst and a symptom of the return to rigid gender roles, and with it a hard turn against homosexuality as a threat to the older ways.”

Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign in the early 1950s.

The documentary explains how Scott was caught up in the Red Scare, with her name appearing in “Red Channels: A Report on Communist Influence in Radio and Television,” an anti-Communist document published in June 1950, that accused her of being a communist.