The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman

This film has done a marvelous job of analyzing the insidious effects of McCarthyism on the American scene and in this case spilling over into Canada. Of course you could not expect much from the movie system of the U.S. since most of the producers were in lock-step with the political and economic leaders of the country in their effort to do whatever possible to stop working people the world over from achieving their liberation from capitalism. Another good example was the story of John Henry Faulk and the classic and probably only truly pro-labor film ever produced in the USA: "Salt of the Earth," produced, written and performed by black-listed members of the Hollywood community, Herbert Biberman, Michael Wilson, Will Geer, and others. The TV movie "Tail-Gunner Joe" did a fairly good analysis of McCarthy, the opportunistic politician as an individual but didn't go into the politics of what was behind the red-baiting.