This Universal newsreel focuses on HUAC and the Hollywood blacklist. Washington, D.C.: Hearings begin before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding charges of Communist infiltration in Hollywood. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas outlines the scope of the probe, while Eric Johnston, head of the M.P.A., denies the threat of Communist influence and states that the Reds will never succeed in Hollywood.

"A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so they turned on each other--pointing fingers at neighbors,...

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. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.