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Summary: Salt of the Earth is a feature film based on the 1950s strike by zinc miners in New Mexico. Hollywood Ten is a documentary chronicling the lives and work of ten filmmakers blacklisted by The House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Entertainment (USA) 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAL

Brimner, Larry Dane

Summary: World War II is over, but tensions between the communist Soviet Union and the US are at an all-time high. In America, communist threats are seen everywhere and a committee is formed in the nation's capital to investigate those threats. Larry Dane Brimner follows the story of 19 men--all from the film industry--who are summoned to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 BRI

Feldman, Ellen

Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Feldman

Ryskind, Allan H.

Summary: "Exposes [what the author sees as] the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the 'Hollywood Ten' brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. [He claims that] the truth is shocking: not only did these supposed liberal paragons adore Josef Stalin and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 RYS

Summary: A compilation of clips from over 50 Hollywood films by blacklisted screenwriters & directors, with expert commentary and other period footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RED

Bernstein, Walter.

Summary: The author recalls the years of anti-Communist hysteria in the United States when he was blacklisted, a label that was responsible for the ruin of many careers in film, radio, and television, discussing how he was forced to write under an assumed name, and looking at other members of the Hollywood community who shared his struggle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNSTEIN, WALTER BER

Buhle, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.894 BUH

Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRU

Summary: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRO

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