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  • Chaplin

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    An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography’s editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

  • Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

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    A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover…

  • Good Night, and Good Luck

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    Livestreamed from the penultimate show at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this stage adaptation of George Clooney’s 2005 film follows the story of journalist Edward R. Murrow’s stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

  • Trumbo

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    The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

  • Fellow Travelers

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    A chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of the 1980s.

  • Oppenheimer

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    The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.