- Self - Narrator: In the fall of 1947, the era of the blacklist had begun. Hollywood had long been under attack for subverting the morals of Americans; charges of too much sex and violence in the movies were almost as old as the industry itself. But with the beginning of the Cold War, HUAC, the House on UnAmerican Activities set out to prove something new; That Hollywood was also the mouthpiece for Communist Propaganda.