Coming apart : Picture this
Peter Jennings, Carrie Cook, Richard Gerdau, Peter Bogdanovich, George Stevens, Dan Ford, David G. McCullough, Stanley Donen, Jean Porter Dmytryk, David Halberstam, Edward Dmytryk, Lauren Bacall, Neal Gabler, Ring Lardner, Marc Lawrence, Janet Leigh, Martin Scorsese, ABC News, ABC Video (Firm), Films for the Humanities (Firm)
In the late 1940's, while the Soviet Union and the U.S. eyed each other over the Iron Curtain, conservative Americans at all levels of society worried about communist infiltration--especially in the movie industry, since that medium plays a huge role in shaping public perceptions and attitudes. This program reveals a time of McCarthyism and career-ending blacklists, a time when freedom of speech itself became a casualty in the desperate fight to protect democracy from "The red menace."
VHS Video, English, ©1999
ABC Video ; Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor], Stamford, CT, Princeton, NJ, ©1999