Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987)
• October 21st, 1987 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget
Released on: 2009-11-24
Documentary
Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with...
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows
Released on: 2021-02-01
Documentary
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Holly...
Montgomery Clift
Released on: 1983-01-01
Documentary
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...
Twiggy
Released on: 2025-03-07
Documentary
Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
Released on: 2003-10-03
Documentary, History
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...
Round About Hollywood
Released on: 1931-05-22
Documentary
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Released on: 2007-10-17
Documentary, History, TV Movie, Crime
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...
Behind the Burning Cross: Racism USA
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary
A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...
The Russian Cracker
Released on: 1999-08-12
Documentary
Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...
Be Water
Released on: 2020-01-25
Documentary
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...
History is Marching
Released on: 2018-12-08
Documentary, History
History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major pow...
Disclosure
Released on: 2020-06-19
Documentary
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
The Deal
Released on: 2015-09-23
Animation, Documentary, Family
Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...
100 Years
Released on: 2021-06-30
Documentary, History
As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...
Cocaine: History Between the Lines
Released on: 2011-08-30
History, Documentary, TV Movie
Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...
Tin Tan
Released on: 2010-11-12
Documentary
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...
The Girls
Released on: 2014-06-27
History, Documentary, Drama
Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Released on: 1997-06-19
Documentary, Horror, Science Fiction
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...