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  • Four Died Trying Four Died Trying 1: The World As It Was (Season 1, Episode 1)
  • TV Episode | 39 min | Documentary

Four Died Trying

Four Died Trying 1: The World As It Was (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | 39 min | Documentary
Chapter 1 : "The World as It Was" reexamines America's original cancel culture: McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist, revealing the entrenched prejudices and extreme tensions of the Cold War that JFK had to overcome to become ...See moreChapter 1 : "The World as It Was" reexamines America's original cancel culture: McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist, revealing the entrenched prejudices and extreme tensions of the Cold War that JFK had to overcome to become President of the United States. Director John Kirby says, " To properly understand that history, we realized that people who never knew or had forgotten about the post-World War Two Red Scare would have to be told the story. That was how 'The World As It Was' was born, and in revisiting that era we were struck by the way it 'rhymed' with today...It illustrates a simpler age, when the term for 'cancelled' was 'blacklisted,' when Russians were called 'Soviets,' and 'shelter in place' was pronounced 'duck and cover.' It was the era of Joe McCarthy and the Military-Industrial Complex, the crucial Cold War run-up to the 1960's, where most of our saga of heroism and horror takes place. But as astute viewers and critics have already pointed out, 'The World as it Was' is eerily similar to the world as it is. " See less
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Director
John Kirby
Producer
Libby Handros
Composer
Joel Hamburger
Cinematographer
Alan Deutsch
Editors
John Kirby | Sherman Lustgarten | Khushnuda Shukurova
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Status
Edit Completed
Updated Apr 5, 2024

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