One of the Hollywood Ten

Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, and Angela Molina star in this powerful feature about Jewish director Herbert Biberman. During the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Biberman was one of the Hollywood Ten sent to jail for refusing to testify against his colleagues and name them as communists. The film presents a remarkable portrait of a time when all of Hollywood was caught up in Cold War paranoia, and many artists named names to save their careers. Biberman’s wife, Academy Award-winning actress Gale Sondergaard, who stood by her husband and her principles, couldn't find work for decades. Biberman directed The Salt of the Earth (1953), a drama about Mexican laborers in California. That film was one of the first 100 films chosen to be preserved in the Library of Congress.