McCarthy, a new film about 1950s anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is set for worldwide distribution. The film stars Michael Shannon as McCarthy and Game of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke as McCarthy’s wife Jean Kerr. 

“[McCarthy is] the first feature film to look at the man behind McCarthyism,” the logline to the film says. “To understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials, and venomous populism.”