The First Part in an ongoing research series.

George explores the cinematic landscape in America before the Second World War and the efforts by Hollywood to wrangle with America's place in the coming global conflict.

In this Episode we touch on the rise of Hitler and Nazism, the dissolution of the Weimar era studio- UFA, The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, The Breen Office and the Hayes Code, Earnest Hemingway's documentary on the Spanish Civil War and producer Walter Ranger's Anti-Facist spy thriller "Blockade" starring Henry Fonda.

Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 as we uncover the politics, spy craft, propaganda, and passion that went into rallying the American people to the Allied effort through the power of Cinema.

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