Abraham Polonsky
Writer · 1910 – 1999 · New York, New York, U.S.
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abraham Polonsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.3DocumentaryThis film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
1998 · 7 votes
MovieDocumentaryA portrait of blacklisted writer-director Abraham Polonsky.
Movie10.0DocumentaryDocumentary about American filmmaker Abraham Polonsky.
Innere Sicherheit: Abraham Polonsky
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DocumentaryHistoryA documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
Red Hollywood
1996 · 13 votes
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Based on information from FBI cases, this documentary investigates the dark years of American cinema and attempts to discover the mechanisms leading to one of the most diabolical periods in US history.
FBI contre Hollywood
2001 · 1 votes