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 ...

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 ...

From the Hollywood Ten to the #MeToo era, the industry has a long history of shutting out performers and power players whose scandals overshadowed their work, blacklisting them from the limelight.