
The FBI Once Thought ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Was Communist Propaganda
Posted on Monday, December 25th, 2017 by Hoai-Tran Bui
It’s a Wonderful Life is an all-American staple of the holiday season, a profoundly inspiring film about a downtrodden man finding meaning and the will to live through the people he has connected with throughout his life. But the FBI once considered it un-American.
For 10 years after the film’s release in 1946, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI suspected the film of being Communist propaganda.