When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed filmmakers to testify about communism in the industry, a few held their ground — and for a time, lost their livelihood. By David L. Dunbar ...

Blake Jones recently became involved with the rescue and restoration of an archive of 16mm footage to be used in a timely upcoming documentary about McCarthy-era Hollywood. In the first of a two-part ...

American author and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo exits an airplane at La Guardia Airport in New York. Trumbo arrived in New York from Los Angeles en route to Washington, D.C., where he was scheduled to ...

The late director Billy Wilder, referring to the “Unfriendly Ten”-later called the Hollywood Ten, who refused to answer questions from the House Un-American Activities Committee in its 1950 ...

Fascism wasn’t always a bad word in the U.S. In the 1940s and 1950s, one of the charges levied by the House Un-American Activities Committee was “premature antifascism.” Largely directed at people who ...

An undeveloped script from Lenny Bruce, a costume from Lauren Bacall and more are on display at this eye-opening exhibit about the Hollywood Blacklist. “Blacklisted: An American Story,” a new exhibit ...