Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Coming Apart: Picture This

Coming Apart: Picture This

While the Soviet Union and the United States 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 ABC News program anchored by Peter Jennings 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." (42 minutes)

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Item#: BVL9007
Copyright date: ©1999
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-1040-0
DVD ISBN 978-1-60467-074-5

Part of the Series : The Century: Events That Shaped the World


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