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.

Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with...

Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"

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

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

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

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

Over the serene and verdant landscape of Northern California, a man with an everlasting childlike sp...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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