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Hollywood Exiles

10. Exile

The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile

9. Naming names

Careers destroyed and friendships fractured as Charlie Chaplin faces his fate in America

8. The un-Americans

The Hollywood Ten hit a legal brick wall as the blacklist era begins

7. Are you now, or have you ever been

A sensational Washington inquiry into Hollywood communist “subversion” begins

6. Hollywood on trial

Washington turns its spotlight on Hollywood in the search for “Unamerican” activities

5. Billy's list

Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson is first to name movie business communists

4. Hearts and minds

The FBI and Ayn Rand scrutinise movies for "subversive" leftist propaganda

3. The case against Charlie Chaplin

Movie star Charlie Chaplin stands trial amid a media storm

2. Red menace

Oona Chaplin reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to root out communists in Hollywood

1. An American dream

Charlie Chaplin is near-exiled following an FBI campaign to root out communism in the US

Introducing Hollywood Exiles

Why was Oona Chaplin’s grandfather, Charlie, exiled from Hollywood? Premieres 22 January