This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts that terrorized the nation. This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the now deceased Hollywood figures whose careers were destroyed when studio bosses, along with guild and union officials capitulated to the demands of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Holly...

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and ...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

Demonstration of shoplifting methods. With the Cooperation and Assistance of Berkeley, California P...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...